Yeah it's so easy to get all high and mighty and pronounce why Hive hasn't gotten back up into the top 100 market cap. At the end of the day that's all wild speculation.
Hive is not in top 100 because its use-case isn't clear, stakeholder/tokenholder incentives are outdated and core development focused on fixing tech debt/improving core code.
I know you play Starcraft so you're familiar with keeping the balance of building out your economy and building up your army/defence + putting out aggression against the enemy/ies. If you go full-on economy and your enemy goes aggressive, you're done.
In the case of Hive, we're not done, just lack behind any project that has A.) a clear use-case (Theta, Uniswap, Solana, Eth,...) or B.) uber-incentives for tokenholders (Any DeFi protocol) or C.) hype (Doge, Safemoon, Shib, ..)
I think we just need to keep our heads down and keep building.
Could be. Or we could also steer in the wrong direction. Difficult to say. Depends on how successful blocktrades' implementation of an SC-layer is and whether we'll be able to keep/get projects building on it.
I patiently await the day that Steem's complete lack of development catches up to the network.
Sadly, I don't think it will matter much unless we're talking uber long-term, similar to how BSC's lack of decentralisation doesn't hinder its growth so I don't think Steem's lack of development won't matter much within this bull-run.
good points.
I'm very curious to see how 2022 pans out.