Yeah, it doesn't make much sense to me to be using Hive at a value of 0.20 USD but so many do. I was here when it went to well over $3 and I sold and bought back at under $1 so gained a shit load of Hive in the process...made sense to me then and makes sense now. I guess, the trick of it is to power up and hold which means something will be available for when prices increase...and also that curation returns are much better and it's also a good feeling to drop larger comment and post rewards on those users who do the same (power up I mean.)
I power up whenever the Hive is available in my wallet, I don't like missing curation reward through waiting for the 1st of the month, I'd rather it works for me all month...and I'm not at all interested in a little bee badge that has literally zero relevance.