I actually agree with your frustration, but I'm not sure I agree with the proposed solutions.

Forcing people to power up their rewards, punishing users who are powering down, or reducing the HBD APR to zero might reduce selling pressure temporarily, but none of these measures create real demand for HIVE.

For me, the real problem is somewhere else.

Hive doesn't need more people buying HIVE because they are already part of Hive. It needs something that makes people who have never heard of Hive want to use a Hive-powered application.

I keep coming back to one question:

What could we build that hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of people would actually use without caring that Hive is running underneath it?

If we could answer that question, the HIVE price would eventually become a consequence rather than the problem we are trying to solve.

Burning HIVE from the DHF might reduce supply, but if there is no additional demand, I don't think it changes the fundamental situation. It's a bit like reducing the number of parking spaces at an empty shop and expecting the shop to become busier.

For me, Hive's biggest problem isn't that too much HIVE is being sold. It's that there are still far too few reasons for people outside the Hive ecosystem to want HIVE in the first place.

And honestly, that's the part I find much more interesting to think about.