I understand your concern. It's true that the performance of Hive in the market has been less than stellar recently. However, it's important to remember that market movements are influenced by a wide range of factors, many of which are outside our control. As for the userbase decline, there could be multiple reasons and price can indeed be one of them.
When you talk about expenses, are you thinking of a particular type of expense?
Mainly expenses from the DHF but it looks like we have recently started to bring that a bit more under control and expect value to be returned for the expenses being paid out from the DHF at least to a better extent at the moment then what they have been. I'm hoping we as a community to continue to keep that in mind when voting on proposals.