many are saying the 13 weeks is why hive is still not hitting 1$ and above.
This is 100% the issue. The current price of the Hive token is making people say stupid shit that they would never say if we had a higher token price. Our random ass token price shouldn't have any effect on the moves we make going forward.
I would support 4 weeks if we actually had network consensus to get 4 weeks... slowly over time one week at a time. But we don't. We have loud voices making wild assumptions about macro-economics like they couldn't be wrong. It's obnoxious that so many people are focusing on the wrong things. Clearly Defi and our stable coin are way way way more important than these timelocks.
IMO the main reason the Hive price isn't doing well is that it's not on enough exchanges. Nothing to do with the 13 weeks to powerdown.
Steem has an eastern user base and is on all the eastern exchanges.
Hive has a western user base but is not on the main western exchanges (Kraken, Coinbase etc). Investors have their favourite exchanges and won't bother investing in coins that arn't on those exchanges.
Instead of tinkering endlessly with the rules of how Hive works, people need to focus on getting Hive on more exchanges.
I would agree that Hive needs more frontend outlets, but Exchanges are tier 1 in that regard.
The best outlets are dapps.
Need more builders.
Now this I agree with you 100%