Yup. hive is inflationary as you know and frontends and hive in general doesn't have massive incentives to power up hive. It's got a lot of reasons you'd want to power up hive but in the grand scheme of things most people at the those we attract right now don't care.
or don't know as the front ends do a piss poor job of actually providing education and exposing things like governance and proposals.
Video tutorials and how-to's would be beneficial for Hive Dapps and HIVE at large.