I am more like you, I am trying to stack as much Hive as I can, I have never powered down and don't intend to unless we see crazy Hive prices like $5+
Here is my Hive Power since account inception (it was used only for playing Splinterlands in the first couple years):
P.S. If you want to look up this chart which by default has other things like Hive, HBD, etc. you can do it here by entering an account name:
https://beebalanced.streamlit.app/balance_history_page
RE: Why don't you want hive power?