Is Smart Contracts a L1 thing, or initiated by a project? That's the whole thing IMO. There were some individuals that thought; hey, let's make a Social Media Platform, or, lets make Twitter/Instagram/Reddit/YouTube, etc., which then evolved to games, nfts, defi, and so on.
Hive is capable of all these things. That is the narrative. The branding of all these projects is the responsibility of those who initiated it. Hive could serve as a incubator, or a kickstarter, sure, but the people who initiated the project should start being more professional about their project(s). Leo is doing just that IMO. Ecency has nice UI, but it's getting outdated in terms of UI/UX compared to 2024 design trends.
Sure. But we are in a space where everything was initiated by someone and those guys are pushing their blockchains. Who is going to push Hive if community leaders dont?
For LEO, Peakd, Ecency, Splinterlands what you said is absolutely true but that is part of what I wrote in part 1. The second part was more related to Hive itself.