To be fair, I don't think anyone thought it would be any different. The only difference is Steemit Inc is gone, which does lower the supply significantly, and means we have a new set of developers but that's about it. The underlying platform is still as broken as before, and so far I don't see anyone looking to change that.

All that said, Hive now is worse for curation than Steem before Justin Sun, and that in turn is far worse than it was in 2018. Not to mention, the golden age of curation - mid-2017.