As has been repeated over and over already - without any kind of accountability or performance tracking, the spending from the DHF is a huge liability for Hive.
What could have been a powerful tool to aid growth and to draw in more investment has seemingly not achieved either to a measurable degree. The lack of performance metrics means that no-one can really prove that the money has been meaningfully spent, yet the spending continues apace.
I am not surprised to see the correlation between token price and DHF spending. Since we have no user feedback tracking on Hive, I can only presume that the connection is due to a combination of the selling of tokens paid out by the DHF and also a negative PR sentiment generated by the ongoing process.
I shouldn't really need to say any more than this for those involved to recognise that urgent and radical change is necessary - but since I have been saying this for years already, with no appreciable changes being made - it seems that I am probably just wasting my time saying anything.