I'm reading over this and I want to make something clear: I think Hive does have a lot of good, decent, or useful content. I think I need to clarify that I am pushing it to be good in comparison to professional articles. But you cannot expect professional articles without, for one, professional pay. We need people writing on this platform that have unique and important perspectives.
It's hard to make a living as a writer. Until we show talented people that they can do that here, we're going to continue to have the same struggles as a midrange blogging platform. I say these things not to put Hive down, but to point out where we could genuinely use improvement.