Also, I'm trying to look out for Hive as a whole, this isn't a personal issue.
It isn't a personal issue to me either. I can take my money else where. The money I've powered up is the money I don't bat an eye at losing.
Hive being at 15% means nothing, when it goes down 15% in a year. (If you curate you already get close to 10%.)
And you don't have an answer to this. You can't get people to power-up at 10% already. Why would they power up at 15%? We couldn't even get people to park their money on HBD at 20% APR.
The HBD is harder to come by and honestly, I swap(ped) most of mine for HIVE. 😁 The main point of this whole thing is to give people more reason to hold their HIVE and (fingers crossed) attract new blood. HBD isn't a top crypto and never will be because of its internalization but, at one time, HIVE was. I think it can be again.
To me personally, it doesn't give me any more reasons than I already have for holding HIVE. One commonality of people that don't hold Hive is that they don't care about holding Hive no matter what. So I don't think it would be the reason for them to stay their hand.
Will it attract new blood? I am doubtful on that one as well. Projects like POSH probably have better odds at attracting new blood than giving a boost to Hive APR.