I expected more in this post.
I do respect that you represent your human, but really thirs boils down to..

LET'S STOP THE PISSING CONTEST
LET'S KEEP DREAMING OF SMT
SO WHEN (IF) THEY ARRIVE, WE CAN PISS IN CREATIVE WAYS.

That's why when SMTs were announced I called it A PIPE DREAM. Not because I'm a prophet but because it essentially got presented as A MIRACLE IDEA but not one Dev expressed confidence. Fat toad Ned actually asked the community to "find errors" so not even he was confident. Of course it became clear he had no clue about anything really. He just piggy backed on Dan (the original Dan) then pretended to be the leader once Dan left.

The thing I watch and see as very important is that community here is essentially as Dan (version 2.0) described it "A Popping Island" though I would substitute his meaning of popping (shining with success) with popping like popcorn. Just like popcorn, some kernels (communities) expand, while other kernels fall to the bottom and never get recognition.

Now it's not promised that just because a community exists it should expand and succeed. The issue is however that the "HEAT" (Hive delegation) is in the hands of so few here that once those whales have satisfied their vision of ROI they likely don't care how other communities are fairing. So some communities are doomed. Not because they're not quality, but because each one literally needs to lure a whale their way through committed "ass licking". Or "brown-nosing" if the first term offends.

This is a major flaw of this system. Because for example the Latin Community here is the most organic and committed, but for the most part they get peanuts. When there's clear opportunity to have HIVE be recognized (in the Americas at least) as a real option of prosperity.

That there (rewarding those communities) would create the wave of uptake that nearly all agree is needed here. Because the one thing those communities prove is that they support each other with heart and belief. So investing in them would have a lateral effect, as they DO distribute the rewards in a way that leads to constant growth. They essentially bring in their two world networks.. but with the current system the rate of "dropouts" is extremely high.

Such an endeavour would shine like a great Digital Utopia for these countries too, that this thing here, really is what it promised. I would even say that media recognition, would take place, and that's a thing that creates mass effects. This doesn't even need SMTs. It can take place now. Yet it seems like rewards to them have a type of limiter.

"Reward them, but just a little, they're poor anyway, anything is better than nothing"

Anyway this (Hive) is all in great danger of collapsing. People don't want to address that fact. That this ISLAND has waters all around it. The rise of them waters and shrinkage of this island isn't something any SMT idea will fix if by that time everyone (that here) is all up that one lone palm tree, fighting over the last coconut.