Our biggest asset is also the biggest failure on hive. Our token distribution.
Rewards should be a layer two solution and the main hive token should be a staking reward. Unfortunately we never did get the smt's that were promised so many years ago and could have moved rewards to separate tokens on layer two with a hive based market to buy and sell them.
If rewards were community moderated on a token by token basis and less valuable than the base token then we would probably have 10x the amount of users by now. We wouldn't have lost tens of thousands of good people over being flagged and there would be no need for accounts like hive watchers that drive our numbers down even lower.
I think a proper way to build second layer communities wordpress style, drag and drop widgets, built in ad revenue and each community a funnel to the chain and bringing ad revenue into the chain could have been epic.
Too many people here are happy with the status quo and those smart enough to change it are probably earning enough right now that they don't want that change to happen.
@therealwolf has dumped over 2 million of free hive with nothing to show for. Yes, distribution is a problem I agree