Lots of work and thought been put into this post.
Whether you like it or not, this is the way that Proof Of Brain works with a market for tokens and is no different than any other component of society that utilises a form of currency as its basis. Whether that is right or wrong..... Money makes money and the token price wouldn't be where it is now without investment.
You do raise some interesting points that many have asked many times before!
That's right. Do you reckon that LEO has dropped because POB has shown up? Money from one goes into the other. Swapping back and forth, trading value, until the next one comes along.
This is why the price doesn't concern me because it's all just air money from the HIVE blockchain. There will always be another tribe. Someone with a large stake bought using curation rewards from another stake does not impress me and it's not solid stability for the tokens price. For that, you need "real" investors (something HIVE hardly gets that many of, so what does that suggest?).
It’s an insular environment at the moment. If we could attract more into the ecosystem then we could see significant growth!