Well, that's where I think it's going the wrong way. Hive SHOULD be easy, and everybody SHOULD be doing it. There's about 1000 other blockchains out there that don't discourage people from building on them / with them / for them, so I'll just take my motivation elsewhere, just like the other people who've had good intentions but got shut down. To me, I don't care about the rewards, but the negative reputation dramatically impacts the visibility of the service, so I won't be fighting windmills.

It would've been easy to just go and say "hey, appreciate the effort, but maybe you'd rather do things this or that way" (some people did that), but if building ANYTHING that interacts with Hive posts is not wanted here, like I said, I'm out.