I also recently saw one user. His KE was over 100. He had received about as much rewards as me. But not only did he power down most of it... he also was happy about not buying HP. And said that Hive rewards should be abolished. This seemed really comical and...weird coming from someone who himself had earned and powered down a lot of Hive in the past.
I would prefer if Hive would stay at this level for a good while and not fall or rise much more. In that case maybe be the end of 2027 I would reach 100k HP. Curation rewards at that point would be really cool. But that is a bit of selfish mindset. For Hive as a whole a rising price would probably be better.