It is personal experiences and seeing what has happened to @enminers. This was the once dominant force back in early 2019 when it emerged.
This is interesting...
I have noticed these accounts mentioned above selling all the reward cards. Clearly more things are needed to plug the abuse. I only try abusing to see if I can do it. I have a huge stake in this game and want it to succeed.
There needs to be something done to curb the abuse, but also things need to be done to bring people to the ecosystem. My vision for the ecosystem is VERY DIFFERENT from what others see. I'd love to see more corporate marketing partnerships to take advantage of the attention economy, if you saw my article on Land possibilities - it's quite obvious where I think this needs to go. To accomplish this, we need to get the bots out and get more people in. You didn't invest into "Bot Wars". This is not supposed to be Proof of Work with extra steps.
It would be disingenuous to claim the number of active users is what it is and I hope that it is not presented as such. The good news is that it is all on the Hive Blockchain and an audit can be done to get a better approximation of active users.