One of the nice things about the architecture we’re moving Hive towards is that we can now add more capabilities to Hive without requiring a hardfork to do so.
This will be of great benefit. Updates are very important for the outlook of the community. Waiting for a hard fork, which tends to be 6 months, causes people to lose interest.
However, waking up one day and suddenly seeing a few new updates really can get people excited. It shows that progress is being made.