And the only people Hive loses for "failing to deliver on the promise" (<-- not true, Hive never promised 'easy money') are tirekickers & abusers looking for a quick buck.
As someone who's been here for 5 years and seen the user waves, that's false. We lose the ordinary users, every time. I have known dozens/hundreds of people in Steem/Hive personally who were not "tirekickers & abusers". Content creators do usually give it a longer go, but the reality is that normal people can't just use Steem/Hive as a social network and get financial value from it. As a consequence, they go where they get more of the value that they can get, be that interacting with their actual friends and family, or the best stream of cat videos and random interesting stuff that come up on their feed.
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