You give great words of inspiration but not words of actual development and strategy. This is why I find crypto/blockchain fun but not serious yet. So many projects propose amazing potential, but then when they don't deliver they revert back to their users/community/investors requesting them to "BELIEVE!" and sometimes shame those that don't. This is a representation of Western society actually, it's a broken world but that's another matter.

My point is that business doesn't run like that. CEOs, Marketing, PR can push the "believe mantra" only so much. After a while share holders and the board simply replace them until they acquire players that can deliver results. That's why the corporate world is so dominant and is both celebrated and hated for the win-at-all-costs style of play.

While it's great to revert to feel-good quotes such as "well, Hive is no longer bogged down by steemit.inc" or "our community is the value" (which are both true) 6 months on those two qualities have lost their novelty.

What Hive needs now is to imagine it's future and then set forth a roadmap to achieve that. Start to form a solid branding around that and present it clearly and broadly. That's what will entice investors again and by achieving those milestones on the roadmap, you gain and retain confidence.

HIVE has great potential.
*SMT has ability to spread it like wildfire.

It's a negative to have development so fragmented and developers believing different things. Some say "SMTs will happen after HF25" others say that they will never happen. Some believe basic H-E second layer is good enough while others are simply moving on from Hive.

There's also a bitter rivalry between Leo and Hive when you would think their success would be openly and unanimously celebrated by all. It really should exist as part of the brand of Hive and marketed as:

The system works. LeoFinance sees success. Hive is ready* and waiting for your creativity, projects and communities.