In my view, more projects, more demand. And one that will not decrease once people decide to cash out.
Playing with the tokenomics of HIVE to just solve the HIVE part is a vertical problem. But in my view, we need to first cover the horizontal one.
Coming to HIVE for profit on HIVE only and short term, its never going to be an healthy plan.
Yeah of course the development is very important, in this sense HE is proving to be very useful. We're having a lot of proyects going on especially in gaming with three or four games about to start in few months.
Before taking this kind of tokenomics approach we should first improve our product (onboarding, aspect of hive.blog and a user friendly system), then maybe could be a good idea to start promoting our blockchain.
To start discussing about how rewards are distributed I think that has proven to be pointless. Maybe to copy the flat curation rewards of Leofinance could be a good idea though, as is something that worked for LEO.