Fiscal prudence is not bad. Bad government makes unethical fiscal management profitable, which gives prudence a bad name because it does evil.
This is why base principle matters so vitally IMHO. Granular specificity regarding underlying mechanisms is not inconsequential, but makes dramatic differences which concatenate as layers of complexity compound effects on society.
In fact it is society which matters, and tokens are of almost negligible import. Tokens to enable commerce are infinitely mutable, as the diversity of altcoins reveals. Sadly, all such tokens are seeking to benefit society most in a legal environment that prevents them from doing so by maximizing the fraud perpetuating the power of overlords.
Hive is a revolution in a very real sense, and in that sense I consider the derangement afflicting it's speech of existential import, which is why I could not more strongly oppose curation rewards that cause profiteers to autovote vapid and disingenuous content because it is fiscally prudent to do so. Trending is not the worst aspect of this derangement.
User retention is. Such derangement deprecates society upon which all the utility and beneficence Hive's tripartite aspects produce, and this degrades all three. Of the three, it is society, the users, that matters most, because it is they upon whom the rest depends.