Price aside, Hive is missing crucial features that other blockchains have had almost since the beginning. I became disenfranchised with Steemit and Hive because it's such a hard slog, the majority of content goes unnoticed and the amount of time put into it versus what you get in return doesn't make it worth it.
And just like Steem battled with, a lot of the content is low-quality trash that exists to farm Hive tokens. The large token holders rarely engage with the platform and use their wealth to spread it around. It's a flawed system because large Hive Power users have no incentive to upvote.
The unique thing about Hive is that you don't technically need to have smart contracts, as a large number of successful decentralised applications shows. However, when it comes to integrity and stability, you want to be able to ensure that the integrity of a contract can be ensured, like in the case of Ethereum.