Hey Mick. On paper it's a good thing for sure.
I have multiple friends (mostly artists) who left Hive due to wale wars.
They simply posted their work and got downvoted to oblivion. None of the instances were justified. The explination is always "uh, oh - idk, I follow I trail, it's just a dust vote, just ignore it" or "you plagiarize" even after complying to authenticate...
Due to those events I'm even scared to post their usernames here - real joke social media...
i've been away too for a while and came back last year , so far no complains from my side there is one or 2 whales that downvote voting trails but that is just a small percentage from the upvotes you get i don't even worry about that because it's not targeted against me .
I am not talking about myself, since I rarely get any votes at all. 😝
In regards to my friends, no it definitely was not only two whales.