I don't necessarily think it was the whims of technology, my company used BlueJeans but dumped it in 2020 because they needed sessions that more than 50 people could join and neither BlueJeans nor Skype could provide that. With Zoom you can 500 people join a normal session and Zoom Events allows 100,000 people to join. I might be wrong but I believe Skype still only allows up to 50 people to join.
But yeah, that doesn't take away from your main point at all... the next Zoom could be just around the corner. Hive has so many advantages over so many other platforms... but people are naturally drawn to whereever everyone else is. I'm not sure how Hive overcomes that.