It's certainly a nice example of persistence paying off... at last. We kept plugging through 7c Steem in 2017 only to eventually get our efforts rewarded when it went to $8.00...
With Hive it feels like it could be a little more sustainable because there is so much development and innovation happening with new dApps... and successes like Splinterlands, and LeoFinance's "Project Blank" whenever they get that off the ground.
regardless of price... Hive has been making a lot of progress for a solid year now... finally the price is catching up