Which is good too. I think we should remove the Hive rewards pool from rewarding content too. We can create another coin for that.
That's why I have been telling stakeholders how awesome Leofinance is. It doesn't rely on Hive reward pool. It has shown how rewards don't have to be distributed from the core blockchain coin.
In fact, Leofinance does a better job in rewarding content and curation.
I'm not opposed to moving in this direction, but for now Hive needs to keep whatever incentives there are for people to hold.
without rewards the revenue plan for Hive becomes... Resource credits, which requires traffic. :)