"...I take it you simply don't like curation rewards."
Way to ignore what I said about them. You can make any assumptions you want, but you ignore the statements I have made that form a rational basis for eliminating them to do so.
"Many seem fully against attracting consumers, which is the paying audience this content needs. They prefer to pretend to be consumers, leading content creators on, in order to build their stake and status within the tiny community designed to never grow."
I almost unreservedly agree with this statement, only replacing the word 'many' with 'the oligarchy on Hive that control governance', and also detail reasons - that the hostile takeover of Steem demonstrates - why the stakeholders that control governance of Hive must suppress growth to maintain their control of governance.
"There's only a couple thousand potential paying consumers here."
Best estimates are that >1m have been driven from the platform by unrestricted taxation since 2017. That's the reason there's only a few thousand consumers here, and it was done on purpose because a growing platform offers an attractive target for hostile takeovers.
"Trying to convert people into investors when they are consumers is sure to fail."
That's just like, your opinion, man. I pretty strongly disagree, and can voluminously cite reasons consumers of social media are strongly incentivized to support the platforms they use, even without the financial incentive Hive potentially avails bloggers.
"Consumers are spending wild amounts of money on content and that market is expected to grow, all while they don't trust crypto in general and think most "investments" are scams."
Hive enables them to spend the rewards pool, rather than their own personal funds, on supporting content. The market is growing. In ~10 years social media has become the single largest sector of global financial markets. Consumers are right to not trust crypto, and to suspect investments are often scams, as I'm sure you'll agree.
"In order to bring the masses, one needs to offer something they're already familiar with, don't have, and want."
This is exactly what Hive offers them. They generally know that the Big Tech companies make scads of money off their content, their posts about pot roast and selfies with grandma, and Hive offers them a chunk of that money, which they do want. It's taken a lot of effort and blather to prevent them from coming here to blog, which is what HW and spaminator are paid ~$350/day to do.
For this part:
You blame "governance" but realistically, everyone new and old participates in common practices which provably lead to stagnation. Voluntarily.
I say "designed to never grow" because after this many years, it's difficult for me to accept how a group of people would enjoy making the same mistakes constantly that don't lead to growth, so it must be intentional. They design the outcome. Change is also an option.
Also, we don't share the same views, but I'd prefer not to go back and forth. We won't accomplish much doing that.
No, I don't. I blame an oligarchy that must make of Hive an unattractive investment to the Sun Yuchens out there to maintain their oligarchical control of governance. Those are not at all the same thing.
Not if we put words in each others' mouths instead of addressing the actual things we say.
The word governance is there, three times, in response. But some noob coming along and automating upvotes for example, has nothing to do with governance and whatever labels and narratives you want to add on.
See. We're going nowhere. lol