Delegating you still keep your Hive on chain. But when you withdraw it is no longer there. So I feel like delegating even with all its shadiness is better than powering down. But please compare how far we have come since Steem with delegation for profit groups and all of those have been removed for the most part.
As I have said before I feel like marketing happens naturally as the price rises. And that happens during "alt-season" as we call it.
Yes we do need to educate, but as @felixxx mentioned many know and chose to do otherwise.
Thanks for that reminder... We did make a huge journey and I hope we will make more of it in the future too... Hive is far from being perfect, but it is better than it was before, and it will be even better in the future... To see that happening, we need more posts like this one, where we can have discussions about important things... I missed these things as recently, we barely had any talks about HIVE fundamentals...