Wow, that's something I'd never thought of. We have projects that pay a little bit of everything, L2 tokens, liquid hive, hbd, but paying directly in hive power is something that would be new. I vote yes, but I think it's always good to leave all the options available, the more options the better for us.
Now, one thing to note: it might not make sense to delegate HP to receive in HP, because then you would have to calculate whether the delegated HP wouldn't help to get more curation rewards than the return for delegating it. I don't know if I explained it correctly.
Now, maybe delegating some L2 token and receiving in HP would be a really cool experiment to test, maybe it could even be a new concept in the future for some healing profiles to work like this.
Well, IDK how it is right now, I was /afk from Hive for a long time, but "to delegate HP to receive in HP" doesn't sound new at all, it was a pretty common thing back then. Yes, keeping undelegated HP for your own use could often "yield" more - if you could be active, have content to post, keep up with the flow and recent buzz, and so on - but when you could not, then delegating HP and getting even like 70-90% instead of 0% due to inactivity sounds great, right? So it showed up very fast and I think I saw pools and bots providing that ever since I first created account :) I think it got waay less popular since tokens and hbd-savings >10% went live. "Passive income" was always a very alluring idea, doubly so if easily liquifiable, and HP never was and always were a long-term thing..
Ahh yes, the part about calculating whether it would be worth delegating HP to receive HP is really for someone who is active, voting every day, either manually or automatically, so if you are voting and your VP is always moving, it may be better to keep the HP for yourself.
Now for an inactive person, it really is worth delegating, because that way your HP will work better and have a greater chance of having a high return. Passive income is something I have been looking for too, in fact I increase my HP with the return of posts, and HBD has been multifunctional.
I buy L2 tokens with it, a little Hive Power UP, another amount in savings to yield and use as a reserve fund and I avoid powerdown at all costs, I really want to grow more and more around here.