Yes. As you said, there are projects that require dedicated accounts. I have two accounts for projects that are currently on hiatus.
There are, of course, also bad actors like the hundred or so Crystal Liu spam and griefing puppets.
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This is common. The first step in starting a project is to create accounts for the project. I would expect to find thousands of accounts that were created in this exploration process.
I worked with a non-profit group that considered creating a web site. They discussed their plans in a public meeting. A mal-actor heard about the project and registered the preferred domain name for the project before the board finalized its decision to start the project.
The lesson I learned is that one often needs to register the accounts for a project before discussing the project. That means registering accounts that are likely to be abandoned.
People who are legitimately engaged in HIVE are apt to end up with undeveloped accounts.
As for spam. I've noticed that bad actors tend to create dozens (if not hundreds) of accounts.
I think that the actual number of spammers is quite low. But the small number of spammers make so much noise that we feel that we feel overwhelmed.
It is easy to conclude that, since spammers have multiple accounts; then people with multiple accounts must be spammers.
But that reasoning is fallacious.
While writing the post, I was actually thinking that HIVE might need a mechanism for classifying accounts. Some of the classes are very clear. Community accounts begin with the word HIVE. Accounts created for oauth have certain limitations. Accounts created to curate alt coins will have very little HIVE but large stacks of alt coins.
BTW: my "business account" is not fully developed yet. Launching the site will involve work.