An interesting read over-all, I enjoyed the exchange between you and 
history of critical consensus failure like Hive
you mentioned critical consensus failure of hive, is this something I need to be concerned with and what failures? Hive had the initial creation Hard Fork from Steem, this did come with a few glitches, but I do not recall any significant failures. Yes HF24 has and did have some issue and that short sidechain split but the glitches are being worked on and the sidefork was taken care of pretty quickly from what I read.
why on earth would anyone use Hive which is basically just a far worse and more insecure EOS?
What makes Hive insecure, I use hive in a social manner, I do recall on steem a lot of people accidently giving out their keys, I have seen a few recent post on Hive about phishing and keys being given out to people where they should have known better. Is it the keys part that is insecure or are there ways and means for people to hack and obtain my keys with out me ever giving them out?
People and developers don't use Hive because it's bad
When you say people don't use Hive what do you mean? I am just a user, I actually like and enjoy the social side of Hive, there is a fairly large group, (at a guess about 4500), that use Hive in a social type manner. It is the social side that help the developers test and try out their application, a built in beta test group.
I think that once Hive is fully separated out from Steem, and starts to go off in a different direction that things will improve, but it will take time. First HF done, next one to finish the foundation layer. If Hive is to succeed we need to avoid pitfalls and mistakes that were made by steem/steemit. The chasing of the reward pool, the constant changing of the economic layer needs to come to a stop for Hive, it needs to have time to develop, time for investor to see and understand that the economics of Hive are not going to be changed or altered with every hard fork.
Like I said I did enjoy the post, those were just three of the things I really did not understand, but for an alternative to all the centralized social media outlets, I must say I do enjoy the social aspects of Hive.
When facebook first came out I tried it-didn't like it
When Reddit first came out I tried it-didn't like it
Twitter the same.
Google hangouts-the same.
With Steem I liked it, then things went wonky, Hive I still like it, if people can avoid the mistakes of Steem, I will still be around in another year or two.
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RE: For Hive to succeed, stakeholders need to not be completely delusional cultists