Wow, I actually understood this. At least, I think I did. My response/question may sound stupid but bear with me.
I was thinking about this and something occurred to me; do want Hive to be the one going up with all the other tokens/front ends growing? I feel like, in a way, having Hive as the conservative center of all of this is like an education city, providing the infrastructure, but you're not meant to just stay in the middle of the street but you'd actually really benefit from the colleges/schools/universities in that place. The city itself needs to be stable/conservative or as you put it, defensive, as that is simply its role. Hence, we evolved into communities/tokens/front ends.
If I am not making sense, sorry. Take what I am saying by intention.
I don't have an issue if changes happen on the layer 1 or layer 2, as long as they happen. Where they should happen, it depends. Layer 1 should be secure, but not necessarily conservative. At the same time the proposal to fund a HBD/BUSD pool on BSC through DHF wasn't voted above the threshold, which to me makes little sense.