There are only two ways Hive fails:
- The first is if every current user departs and leaves it a ghost town. That's not very likely to happen.
- The second way is if the majority of the top witnesses shut down and stop validating blocks. This would create a crisis, but other witnesses would likely step up and take over.
While it's fashionable to beat up on the status quo, the existence of a status quo means the platform hasn't failed. I don't care how many people are using Hive, or not, as long as Hive continues to be what it is. Eventually, we'll have more users and user adoption or it will continue to serve well the people it is now serving. But it has not failed.