">... misdirected resources at the top."

That's how they get to the top. This is why decentralization is leaderless. Hive isn't actually decentralized, because the stake that governs it isn't decentralized, but concentrated in the accounts of an oligarchy that keeps rewards flowing to them.

Steem is the future. It is the future of Hive if Hive does not change how governance is effected. All it takes to rule Hive the way you want, just as Sun Yuchen rules Steem today, is more money than the current oligarchy has. While neither you nor I have such money, plenty do. Hell, it cost Sun Yuchen more for lunch with Warren Buffet than it did to take Steem over.

We'll see if Hive survives the focus of rewards on the oligarchy. I'm not gonna bet on Hive. When Hive ends up some censored cesspit of centralization, the competition will surpass it quickly. Note how quickly Hive surpassed Steem after Yuchen began his solitary governance. That's even without changing how the blockchain works.

Better things are possible, and when the misdirection of resources has it's inevitable and terminal result on Hive, if not before, they will rise above.

Thanks!