Thank you very much for this great reply.
And forgive me for this late reaction.

Differentiating POVs like yours are actually very rare.

They write thoughtful posts that take hours and get rewarded with pocket change while low effort content floats to the top because the right bot picked it up. This is not a place that rewards high quality content. It's a place that rewards stake and connections.

This is also the reason why people who have been writing quality, original thoughts, using it as their own blog of scientific research and more, are being conditioned to stop. To put in less effort.

It is all about incentives - you can design self-regulating systems, with great quality, due to curation and working incentive structures as well as mechanisms

Hive is not perfect, I am talking about that.

But people either attack me because they like Hive too much or attack me because they don't like it at all.
Both are projecting onto me and both funnily have nearly no stake.

The one last thing I really value about Hive is the immutability. That it is impossible to censor.
You can still look at the most abyssmal downvoted posts. And can even build frontend to even highlight them.

My fear is just that we will also loose that.
Because of the uneconimic hive nodes.
Will the greedy whales and witnesses continue running altruistical nodes?
Will new witness nodes be able to run the system once old witness and whales stop?

With rising hardware and electricity costs due to AI as well as the plummening Hive price?

If Hive stalls, the immutability is also gone.