This has been a continuing feature of Hive since it's creation, as pure plutocracies inevitably and demonstrably create oligarchies, and Steem demonstrated that small ponds are easily gobbled by big sharks, rendering the Hive oligarchy unalienably vulnerable to relatively small outside investors, like Sun Yuchen.
The only way they have to retain their control of Hive governance is to discourage substantial investment, and they do this by suppressing user adoption and retention and creating an unattractive ROI to such investors. Even a cursory glance at the massively funded DHP Valuplan, that expends enormous funds on a race car as some pretense of marketing of the platform, reveals that the Big Fish in our little, and shrinking, pond, desperately are creating an unattractive investment to preserve their oligarchical control of Hive governance while stripping funds from the DHS. Even if there isn't some form of kickback or quid pro quo therefrom, it reduces the cash on hand Hive presents to investors, and Hive has substantial cash on hand in the form of the remnants of the Founder's stake. Plutocracies are easily purchased by bigger fish, as Steem demonstrated.
The excuse for massive flaggotry that has driven about a million users off the platform since 2017 has often been that such users don't improve the platform technically. Of course all manner of BS has been ginned up by flaggots destroying onboarding and user retention in order to discourage supercession of their oligarchical plutocratic control of governance.
Whether or not SirCork has any such intent is not within my purview, nor even my interest. However, any platform that seeks to succeed on Hive alone will depend on support from that oligarchy, because they have the bulk of stake on Hive. My posts will certainly not attract financial support from that source, and SirCork's may appear to be tailored to that reality for the obvious and apparent reasons I have mentioned. That doesn't actually mean a damn thing about the value of the platform he has developed to Hive, as Hivestreams.live appears to me to be a well made and highly desirable way for folks to stream.
Let's hope it isn't crushed because it works for the reasons I have mentioned.