is just an account creating that much strain on the chain? without HP you can do 1-3 transactions a day? (not sure if it is even that).
looking at the registration process yesterday i am sure that at least 80% of people that found Hive one way or another did not make an account only because it is complicated and on top of that we made it more complicated.
I mean i would pay 2$ for creation, but i am here for 4 years. most that have no idea what Hive is will not. and there are probably a number of people that can't even do that (didn't look how the payments are made, for 15 years paypal was not willing to work in my country, crypto should solve that)