it's not ridiculous to imagine a future where Hive pivots too 100% DeFi, eliminating the reward pool in its current form
Fully agree. I already suggested the idea of moving the social stuffs to layer 2 and communities at SteemFest4 in BKK during the witnesses talk, but it was not warmly welcomed at that time.
Yeah I was pretty strongly against it as well.
I think it's just a waiting game until we get forced into it.