Appreciate your sharing as always! For people like me who have been around for some time (or maybe a long time!), all these information are familiar to me.
It's really important for people to do a read up on the whitepaper and understand how this project works. By reading it, and also seeing the real execution over the years, I think one would understand why the LEN token has performed so well. I am glad that I found my way into this project early and could reap some of the benefits and grow my Hive account better.
I think you forgot to mention the amount of hard work required to put all these initiatives together and run the weekly posts, distributions, etc. I think that's the main secret sauce - I see some (if not, most) of the layer 2 projects, people just lost interest halfway and they just gave up.