@dhimmel did a great job answering these questions. The answers to your questions makes me feel really good about staying focused on the first layer staking and investing hustle as a very small stake hodler.
But if I was a bit more sharky minded and actually liked games, then I would be loving the short term prospects. But long term has some serious alarm bells.
I can see why it was brought up to me that Agg monopolized/centralized development of hive. I can see how now. But still its a business and market the consumer/trader wants and we are benefiting from it currently it seems.
Hopefully, everything continues in a positive way with SL like it is and we see continued investment and excitement with Hive as a result.