Well, I hope it was clear that with this kind of question I did not expect a short and easy answer. Instead I wanted to open up a discussion, sort of like what we are having.

I guess it goes back to my realization a few weeks ago, about Hive ... well, not being as hopping of a place as it used to be. Projects have failed (as they typically do, but it seemed like this happened more than they succeeded lately), the price of the coin is in the gutters (not something that has truly bothered me as much as others), and many amazing people have left (this is actually what I find most discouraging, and it is probably tied closely to the first two factors). Still, all of these things are not enough to get me to throw the towel, so I'm still here, along with a handful like minded Hivers. What now?

Over the month or so, I did get excited about a few things, as you can see in my blog. Other then my usual posts about food, beer, and murals, I found blocktunes, where I musicians can share their earnings with others, and scrobble.life, a new way to write and share reviews of films, series, books, etc. and slothbuzz, a new front-end where you can grow yourself a tamagochi like companion. - Yes, I know... still, it's something that caught my attention, even though so far I haven't managed to get one yet.

On Scrobble.life I had some issues figuring out how to write posts through their site which is not really intuitive. When I finally did, I shared it in a post that got some amazing resonance from loads of people who ran into the same issues. That was the teaching part you mentioned, and that was quite fun actually. Though other than being a messenger (number 4) I really hope that it does more of helping to grow the infrastructure. I don't mean in the programming sense (number 2), as that has never been my world, but instead adding to the activity by using things (number 3). That's also what I've been doing on blocktunes, though with a much smaller resonance.

Of course fun has always been my driving motivator (number 1), which got me to experience a bunch of things, including games like splinterlands, maffiawars, or dcity. All of them are in the past now, for various reasons. At some time I was also super enthusiastic about onboarding new people, and teaching newbies about Hive. Both have had very modest results. Then there is DeFi and such projects as Leo, Cub, and all the great hullabaloo around them, which I enjoyed being part of, but then didn't have the expected results. (Though honestly, I am not sure what I expected out of them personally.)

So again, this is not like a clear and distinct answer to your questions (to my question). It is much rather supposed to add to the big picture and lead the discussion hopefully to somewhere inspiring.

In any case, I appreciate any suggestion you may have, and I am happy to see that you're a witness I can vote for. After all, I've already had more personal interaction with you than with most other witnesses.

Edit:
Hey, I just tried to vote for you, but it says you are disabled as a witness. Why? How? What does that mean anyway?