I agree. The potential social decentralized governance here has been enormous for years. We've made some slow progress with various DAOs but otherwise it's been really disappointing that Hive hasn't kept pace with the rest of the crypto space. I dare say the underlying technology here is looking tired, maybe even redundant by comparison.
At some point maybe we fork onto a side-chain of one of the big smart contract chains, but the witnesses here would be doing themselves out of job so I doubt they would facilitate that.