And that's hitting the nail on the head!

That's precisely the point of my pushback. Because clearly the development here is on the level of TINKERING by ENTHUSIASTS/HOBBYIST so it won't rival the capability of a multi-billion dollar company...

YET, these BULLSHIT ARTISTS that push out VAPORWARE here to the users, paint their shit like as if it's on the same level and that mainstream will fall to their miniscule operation... for example: 3SPEAK... who up until now have done nothing different to what DTube did for steemit.

YET they claim that the future of video dominance is all in the storage. That simply by giving incentives to store a video on some entry level virtual machine, the mainstream world will automatically migrate over....

AUDIENCE MATTERS NONE... apparently.

Yet the agreed demand here is actually that those content creators MUST BRING THEIR AUDIENCES WITH THEM... (and that's something I've seen you reiterate.)

So again, from my view: MAJOR FLAW!
It just won't happen like that.

Even the people already in here often make comment of how hard it is to even get some of their close friends to join. So the reality is that the system itself doesn't facilitate growth.

IT ACTUALLY IS WHAT LIMITS GROWN.
Because to a new user, Hive is a clusterfuck of noise and confusion.. and if they get in... as you pointed out, it's a society sick with EGOS and ambitions of destruction by those who claim to be "defenders of censor-resistance."

LOL what a joke!

But anyway the state of the system and the state of the community are two different beasts so I digress, but you are completely on point about how Hive is poisoning itself from within.

To end..

HIVE is just no where near ready to be anything but a tiny niche of people devoted to working hard for low wages. Imo, it never will be anything beyond that. Time has proven it. 2 years on from the infamous split, a few won big, and the rest of the fools become the many worker bees.

So that's the other flaw. That everything is orientated around the money potential/promise/lure.

Just look at how these clowns of SPK are trying to create speculation before their product is even a thing. They want even THE CLAIM DROP to be speculated on with the desire to create an internal market for a token that has absolutely no meaning. The platform it is linked to doesn't even exist yet... and might never.

Mainstream simply sees that as SCAMMY. Because it damn well is SCAMMY.

Get your product out..
Let it speak.
Money comes after when you actually have a platform (AND A HUMAN ELEMENT aka NETWORK EFFECT) to be seriously considered as a contender.

Else, they living in candyland thinking it's going to be so simple.