I was about to say this:
In my humble opinion, the only metric that matters and should matter for Hive as a long term goal is the user-base growth. Not only user-base growth with onboarding activities, but also actions that improve user retention.
User retention is important. In fact, the fact that the market melts will be a good test case scenario to see whether it works fine (or better than in the past), won't it?
Cheers!