Your first point is imo less related to tokenomics and more about the fact that while coins like Bitcoin, Ethereum and even Dogecoin have been getting increasing name recognition and respect, Hive has remained almost entirely unknown. It's a failure of our own stakeholders in supporting and prioritizing growth more so than the inflation rate (which is lower for Hive than the staking rewards in Ethereum 2.0). So one has to control for that.
The point is that with more adoption + less inflation, it will be harder to get the token. Let's see if POB can succeed more than Hive in attracting and growing an active and committed userbase.
Very good points, POB I think is and will attract new people and engagement on the platform has been pretty much 10x compared to any other front end at the moment. Fully agree that all of us as token owners staked are invested and it's in our best interest to continue to spread awareness and get others involved. I've been doing that myself on many fronts but I don't really blog about it much as I don't see that really being a good post. Instead I like writing about hot button or hyped up information at the time to gain the most viewers from outside of hive on my articles.