"...its easier to fork the important sections, leave curation, rewards, and all that shit out, and have a neutral layer of information."

Rewards are necessary. Curation rewards are not.

"Curation [rewards, VC] is retarded by design and should not be the core anyway."

Exactly correct.

"Eyeballs is money, not some retard likes a post."

And the critical value Hive creates is bringing the eyeballs, creating content that brings viewers and new users to the platform. Everything is instead stripping all value by the ~36 whales that suck all the rewards from the platform because they have a bare majority of stake. This is the fundamental underlying flaw that has deranged curation, misapplied rewards, and caused Hive to dwindle to ~2000 users while social media became the largest financial sector in global markets.

Thanks!