Glad I found your post, as I was wondering what happened with this project. I clearly remember thousands of articles flooding Leo about this, and just my experience made me realize something was wrong.
Even though it is nice to see some prominent members (like edicted) were skeptical, we all know how 90-95% of the writers are here just for the money and will not give two satoshi's if the project is credible or scam.
There's one more issue with Leo, though. It's 90% meta content. It's all about Leo, Hive, and any apps on Hive, but just 10% about the rest of the world. Not sure if promoting Meta content is the correct approach.