under Steemit Inc which did nothing for many years.
They had different goals (greed). Different goals for the same entity just goes to show that multiple approaches aren't working.
we are dealing with the overwhelming majority simply being green candle people.
Sure, agreed, but when businesses hit a hurdle they either die or they overcome. Hive neither innovates (visibly, entrepreneurially), nor dies off as a failure. It just floats in purgatory as long as a steady trickle of value oozes out of it.
The world record for most blood squeezed from a stone.
That's not to say I'm an anti-hive doomer. I'm just getting impatient waiting for the day for literally anything to happen. I tried myself and failed, I'm not willing to put my entire life savings into something that will just float along with 7 monthly users and Venezuelan bot accounts using PeakD's AI tool to automate comments. Not enough of that blood is ever squeezed out to properly incentivise somebody to actually take anything on and dedicate full time to the end of any project. 10 more years of 'minor improvements to the back end'