This feels a touch oversimplified, IMO.
The hyper short form content engine is borne of the advertising and data harvest cycle—more eyeballs/users = more ad revenue, hence all the gross social media algos that prioritize "engagement" which is maybe more accurately "engagement-at-all-costs-quality-be-damned."
Like any product, you need to find a market, and there is absolutely a market for longform content, and Hive need not exclude itself from those markets.
That said, mass adoption as a social platform definitely needs strategic thinking around that "lowest denominator" / "level playing field" idea. But—and this is a big but—the whole financial incentive system that underpins massively adopted systems is different on Hive. Vastly different. Data harvesting and ads and clogged sponsored stuff and influencer marketing... how much of that does Hive take onboard to fuel the adoption, how much do we eschew? It's a complex system of incentives, the masses are very unconditioned to the "co-op" nature DeSo stuff, etc. etc.
There is no exclusion suggested. Its the rejection of currently mainstream popular content forms that was present here in the past years, in lesser sense now as the slow adjustment in mentality happens.
You take onboard what you want to take onboard. Data harvesting and ads wasnt what created appeal in the eyes of the mainstream towards those platforms. It was something else.
You want more users, more eyeballs, you adopt and adapt what works.