I was personally very pleased with the Live Stream Hive account@exyle since they will not be pitchforking the blockchain and estimated that they can save about $750,000 USD annually once the cost reduction improvements are made.

When the market was still bullish they were focused on speed (not cost reduction) to compete with other blockchains, but now that the market sentiment has reversed they changed their tactics and will now reduce costs.

It looks to me like Hive account@ned is guiding Hive account@steemit well and I have no complaints.