Were Hive a platform that retained it's users, and gained new users organically, we'd have to beat investors away with clubs. Investors seek opportunity to increase the value of their investments, and until Hive provides that opportunity by retaining it's current users and attracting new ones, it will remain unattractive to investors.
Please consider my reply to @beggars in ITT this thread and the Stewards of Gondor experiment (which I believe predates your joining the platform) to improve user retention and grow the platform organically.
I absolutely agree with you that Valueplan is not how to grow Hive into an attractive investment vehicle, because it does not do anything to retain present users, nor attract new users organically. What it has done for years is blow enormous sums of money to gain nominal new users that simply quit posting in short order. Nothing in this present ask is substantially new or different in that regard. Frankly, if we just gave new users 800 HBD for joining and staying for a year, we would have an enormous influx of users without all the rigmarole Valueplan is proposing to gain new users at a cost of 800 HBD each.
Valueplan's adamant refusal to use GAAP to properly account for the $M's it has already disbursed, and the >$1M more it proposes to disburse this year, is scandalous, and supports the credible allegations of theft by fraud that have been made in prior years. Double entry bookkeeping is so simple children can do it, and Valueplan demonstrates it has the ability to collect and present that data at least as well as children running a lemonade stand, which is all that is necessary to be accountable to the Hive community for their expenditures of the DHF. That they continue to not use GAAP, and refuse to provide accountability for their expenditures of the DHF funds, only supports allegations they are intent on facilitating theft by fraud.