You hit the nail on the head without realizing it. And nobody else seems to be seeing the issue either. This is where you answered the question:
Bottom line is, adoption is catastrophically low here and we don't have that many non-content-creating users that consume only. This kind of creator is a creator-only person and won't do well here without himself interacting with people. He can afford to do that on YouTube where most of the users, 99.999% in fact, don't create their own content.
We are a platform of creators but not for consumers. We either need to appeal to the consumers as much as the creators or the creators have to build their own audience outside of Hive and use Hive to monetize it. This is a huge issue in our adoption that nobody seems to want to address. We keep wanting to get these big influencers here hoping they will bring their audience. But they wont come because there is no built in audience.
We need to be attractive to all users or just let creators intergrate Hive into their own sites. If it's the latter then we are seen as just another crypto currency pay gateway. Which honestly, isn't that compelling to the larger creators.
Hive does have some underlying issues that is holding it back from adoption by the general population. But a lot of the older long time users either dismiss the issues or do not see them. Either way it is not growing and if you look at the numbers of active users, it's actually been shrinking over the last year or so.
Hive has not failed.
But it is stumbling and staggering like a drunk leaving the bar.