Friendly user journey
On this point I can be short, I think you all have a feeling this is not user friendly at all. The signup, the key management, learning how to include images and other links into the posts, not user friendly. After coming back in 4 years I am surprised not much has been done to improve on this. I tried to embed a Twitter link for example by just copy pasting the link, but it didn't work. While on other social platforms this a given now.
As a content creator this has always been my biggest grief with steemit and now hive, the average boomer who watches youtube is not equipped to even handle a standard bitcoin wallet, never mind grasp the idea of HIVE as a currency or how to turn it into USD which is what they really care about at first. Over time they will develop a feel for crypto and want to keep it in HIVE or BTC or whatever. The on boarding process is the hardest part, and the most important part.
Your criticism though about twitter links not embedding is def not true, I use HIVE for my show every night and the twitter links always embed perfectly. Go through any of my hundreds of "show notes" posts and see.
HIVE should focus on promoting and recruiting content creators and people who on board new users to the platform. Pew Die Pie at one point brought a ton of new people to dlive, but HIVE has never had any major players promote it.