Yep, but looks like we need a way to experiment in a way that people don't feel there is a risk to their current income stream. Probably we'll need to wait till we have HMTs to experiment with, as a new HMT can be setup with no pre-existing expectations.
But just having HMTs won't be enough, we'll also need ideas about what changes we want to try. And ideally, we need those ideas before HMTs are created, as otherwise we might find ourselves needing to redesign them to support the ideas.
But in the future, I guess I should couch any such discussion in terms of HMT economics rather than Hive economics, to avoid the resulting panic engendered by a discussion of an economics change :-) Lesson learned!