I couldn't disagree more.
Hive is like the magazine rack or a big department store. All these little side projects are the magazines or departments. One can't even fire up a new 'magazine' without having a rack to put it on. One successful product isn't going to carry the rest. Especially not in a decentralized world. If that one product fails, then everything fails. Hive can't depend on LeoFinance or Splinterlands or NFT Showroom. Those projects need Hive. Hive needs consumers. Put them all in one place and their interest spills over onto every other product available. If someone shows up because Spliterlands or some other yet to be developed game caught their attention, they find their way to a central hub, then take another road over to 3speak to see what's there. Then maybe they want to spend some money there, too. Without that central hub, all these projects are segregated, distant, and can't feed off each other. That's terrible for business. People go to department stores for a new toaster and leave with three bags of stuff for a reason. And it's a damn good reason if you're interested in making money.
And Steem is a piece of shit. It's all smoke and mirrors.
They have posts trending there for hundreds of $ for a couple of lines and a stock image. :/
That's not 'trending' though. They're buying votes. Those shit posts are their paid promotions. They basically spend a bunch of money to make themselves look like idiots. Caters to the moronic and those suffering with inferiority complex.
I just wish that newcomers would see that it's a big scam and get redirected to Hive
It's better for Hive if they get screwed, waste time, and find out the hard way. Look how well some alternative platforms did once the talent left for greener pastures when this community was busy selling votes/self-sabotaging.