Because Hive has been building the same features for 5 years and shipping press releases about it instead of users. Justin Sun wanted Steem because it had momentum. We won that fight and then did nothing with it. Vitalik doesn't talk about Hive anymore because there's nothing new to talk about. No users, no apps anyone outside the community actually uses, no reason for anyone to care. The shitcoins get YouTube videos because they have marketing budgets and hype cycles. Hive has neither. That's not a conspiracy, that's just what happens when a community spends more time congratulating itself than growing.
Hive has the DHF sitting there with millions in it and we still can't coordinate a single sustained marketing effort. This was what the DHF was meant to be used for.
That sounds like truth despite being rather depressing...