And see, I'd take it the other way. I'd place that Hive content, development news, platform politics, etc, in it's own tab. It would look exactly like the trending page. I wouldn't make an entirely new front end since it should be easily accessible. One click away. Much like deciding to instead browse the 'hot' section rather than the 'trending' tab. Call it the 'development' tab perhaps. Or, The Boardroom. The front end could decide to make that boardroom the landing page if they wanted.
General content has a tendency to appeal to more people on the outside. That's why Youtube's trending page isn't about their platform politics. It's full of organically popular entertainment/information, and people gravitate towards that. Millions of them.
I think the first time I attempted to describe this was here in the comments: https://peakd.com/hive/@justineh/hive-witnesses-or-more-communication-needed
I'm not sure if you're aware, but even since the earliest days of Steem up to today here and now on Hive, a lot of people have actually been annoyed with the Hive content/platform politics trending consistently. It's to the point (though improving as of late) very few actually look at trending because they think it'll just be more of the same, and I think it's fair to say majority aren't interested in platform politics. I enjoy it, and I'm sure you like to have a say in matters. Most people just want to chill and do whatever.
My ridiculous post with 170 comments. Sitting next to development news with twelve comments that day? That doesn't mix well together. It makes it look like more people are interested in having fun and not interested in Hive, yet that fun is meant to be a part of Hive. It feels weird though placing comedy or one of your random shit posts (you said it!) in with important chain news and information. Arts and entertainment has never mixed well with this stuff.