I’m not sure anyone here is in denial we are a fork of Steem. However, Steem is just a name, Hive is the community that separated itself from the hostile steemit inc ninjamine dev fund that was never to be used to vote.
Mistakes are just walkways. The only way to not make the same mistake is to keep walking forward, keep failing forward.
But Hive is using its resources 10x better than Steemit inc was with their ninjamine. I think we learned from the past and will make new mistakes in the future to learn from.