Change is good, @howo did spin up their own witness and being an active dev who works on things like RC delegations and communities is probably worth looking into voting for again.
I second the dedication to hive stuff, I mean,there are many witnesses up in to top 50 who don't really do much if anything these days for hive but it is how it is. they are in fact slowly falling losing their ranks especially as new people come in and show people how to really support hive etc.
Governance is still a slow.. lazy thing that most people either don't know of or simply don't care, that too is slowly changing.. very slowly changing. It's difficult to change people mentalities and actually make them take control and give a damn.