Crypto's usecase is a money that can be uncensored. The users of crypto aren't employees or officers of corporations, and the cryptocurrencies aren't businesses.
Hive isn't a business, it's a society that can enable businesses to use cryptocurrency to undertake commerce when fiat is hoarded by banksters, and payment processors are preventing commerce from being undertaken through censorship, as we have seen Visa and etc. do to their customers. All cryptos have that use case, but Hive, 3Speak, Peakd, Ecency and etc. offer more: actual speech uncensored, which other cryptos have not managed to better provide than Hive.
2020 is becoming fulfillment of the prophecies of conspiracy theorists like Satoshi Nakamoto that claimed banksters were defrauding their customers in the money businesses.
It's true that Hive can enable government, if the people comprising the Hive society, it's users, decide to do that with it. Until that happens, governance isn't a use case. People don't buy Hive so they can have the opportunity to vote for witnesses, which would be the situation were governance it's use case. An HOA could use Hive to fund the roadside gardens of their neighborhood if they chose to, in which case governance would be the actual use case they came to Hive for.
Hive wouldn't be the government of the HOA. New York City isn't a government. It's a society and infrastructure which the municipal government of New York City governs, just like the businesses of New York City aren't the city, neither vice versa, but do business there just like 3Speak does on Hive. New York City wouldn't continue to exist without it's businesses (as we see it's tax base doing today), and Hive cannot continue to exist without it's use case providing businesses, but Hive is not those businesses, nor any government which it's users may undertake for any other society than the Hive community itself.
Censorship resistance is a use case for Hive, and increases in value daily as social media ever more censors their users. But that use case depends on the servers and internet people must be able to use remaining available to them to produce blocks and read and write blogs, post and watch videos, and etc. We've seen Cloudflare, ISPs, Domain Registrars, and backbone providers cut websites off just like we've seen payment processors cut off sites and movements.
Hive needs to be robust enough to prevent being censored in those ways, or it's tokens and businesses will not have use cases. Give that thought please.
It's a good idea to understand these different things going forward. It's easy to get confused with a new technology, as you pointed out BTC misunderstood it's use case. There is a reason BTC didn't become delivery pizza money, and that is how miners responded to halvenings in order to keep their mining investments profitable. If they hadn't made fees so exorbitant that it is almost impossible to transact in BTC the currency would have no longer functioned, because mining would no longer happen.
That's why HODLers kept hodling even though the transaction costs mooned more than token value. Shovel sales were a better business than gold mining during the gold rushes too.
Absent a market for censorship resistant speech, the society that uses Hive will no longer have a use case.
3Speak, Peakd, and Ecency are as essential to Hive's success as general stores were to the gold rushes, and miners are to BTC.
Much success to you in sorting use cases from business prospects and governments in this new paradigm. Thanks for your inspirational leadership!