One of the greatest aspects of Hive is that you don't need to go "viral" to earn something. It's more egalitarian than anything else similar online. Not perfect, by any means, but better...
How many millions on YouTube are working towards those top potential earnings for years and years but never see a cent on the way and still fail to earn anything beyond negligible cents from advertisers? The huge majority!
For every handful of winners there are millions of losers. Compare that to Hive and Hive wins my vote again and again — as it currently stands (with L1 rewards system)
Sure... but you can basically earn nothing if you do spot for spot comparisons with the mainstream. Hive cannot sustain a creator ecosystem even at a 10x. The ceiling is far too low.
If we want that to be possible, if we indeed want a mainstream viable platform to exist on Hive we simply need to look at L2. I dont know what else we can do to the base layer besides increasing inflation significantly.
I dont think many will opt for that.