The code.
Hive is limited in how many accounts can be created. Anti-mass adoption by design.
SplinterLands experienced the bottleneck in 2021 and now HF26 made account creation even more expensive and limited.
The plan of top devs is to make a Hive account carry a PREMIUM.
Exactly how big do you think Hive needs to scale up to in order to have success?
You're basically wrong twice.
Once in thinking we need "mass adoption", and again when you say the code doesn't allow it. If Hive increases it's floor value by x10, then guess what? Everyone can afford an x10 bigger node and x10 more accounts.