Agreed. I would be very supportive if they followed through on the original plan of full integration. I just had higher expectations from their initial announcement last year that they would have played a larger role as a convenient on-ramp already.
As a suggestion for a service that I would personally use with Hive adoption is General Bytes ATMs. They are the second largest deployed crypto atms in the world and I know I would personally add support for Hive and I'm sure other operators would as well. The best part is that we'd only need development for that kind of integration to be available. The platform is open source so once the development is set we could open Hive to over 2,000 in person locations.
It will be interesting to see how decentralized deal making happens on Hive.