Often, to fully understand and stress test your opinion, you must consider the opposite opinion.
A few days ago I began to talk about my frustrations with this platform (despite my love for it!), being that I've been on it for ten years. If you want to check out that post, it's here.
I want to look at it from a different perspective to better understand where I stand. Know that this does not mean that my opinions have ultimately changed. Only that I think it's a useful exercise and people may find it of interest (which is why I'm putting it here).
Well, let's consider it: what if Hive is exactly what it needs to be, and is exactly where it needs to be right now? How would we make that argument?
For one, this is a totally new paradigm taking place. The journey from bartering to metal coins took tens of thousands of years. To fully transition from valuable metals to fiat took millennia. And from fiat to centralized digital currency was less than a century.
If we went from centralized digital currency to decentralized digital currency in 35 years, it would still be record time. Crypto's leading coin, Bitcoin, has only really started 17 years ago. For hive it's even less time, barely 10 years if I recall correctly.
Given how rates of adoption follow an exponential curve, we would expect things to move somewhat slowly until we reached the knee of that curve. Then things would change quite suddenly, maybe in the space of a few years.
From that perspective, you could argue that the main mission is to make as many gains and preparations as we can at this stage, before we hit that curve. Because things will change so rapidly, that many decentralized systems will probably strain and break under the pressure.
If all of this were the case, then the main thing right now would be survival. Survive to later thrive.
Again, I'm not sure I agree with this perspective but... It's one worth considering.