not sure I buy into the living off Hive argument, because building at least some HP will actually increase their curation rewards and monies available not only to them but also for others
This is kind of how I feel too, but I am trying to be a little empathetic. When I get around to looking at my votes I am going to be looking at whether they are powering down and I am also going to be looking at how much of their HP they have delegated away. I've been here since January of 2018 and I haven't powered down at all that I can remember. My account isn't as big as it could be due to moving a lot of my rewards into HBD, but pretty much all of my growth has been organic from posting, commenting, and curating.