Where there's royalty, there needs to be a nobility, a court, bureaucracy. Knights and Dames, like Sir Jimmy Saville and Dame Jacinda Ardern, to pick a couple of worthy, recent examples of royal recognition for services rendered to the crown. Maybe we can come up with some equivalent on Hive? It would be impossible, of course, to match the ability of Jimmy Saville to bring new and entertaining company to King Charles, Prince Andrew, and Prince Harry (although I hear Diddy, a mere commoner, seems to have provided such opportunities to meet and mingle to Prince Harry), or Dame Ardern's firm guidance of the crown's New Zealand estates to 95+% mRNA-ification with diligent application of friendly police persuasion, and clever reminders that jobs and homes were privileges plebs enjoyed by royal benevolence - that depended on their Covid obedience - but there must be similar roles enabling the Hive royalty to rule so continuously focused on their royal prerogatives.
I guess guilty and butterfly might be the closest we could get to such erstwhile servants. Would it be too much to expect BT to drop a sword on their neck in appreciation for the careful accounting they have assured us they maintain, and call them lord and lady? After all if they hadn't minded those accounts with such care, he'd be finding the most Hive misplaced as a result. Maybe this would be a good place to find anything misplaced?
I think it is too late to save Hive, the damage has already been done to its reputation. Even without the Hive Grifters, the HBD tokenomiics are going to crash Hive, especially now that they removed the debt limit.
I still intend to find out, but some things are hard to stomach along the way.
I think you already know the answer. It is the same for all PoS chains and many PoW too.