Well that would be a tragedy, because I just don't believe Hive will go anywhere. The coordinators of Hive were active in Steem for years and never got it out to people, instead they milked the system for whatever they could get out of it at the cost of it growing to millions of users. They preferred being frequently on trending to a small community than risk being smaller fish in a bigger pond.

At least, that is how I see Hive witnesses and top stakers. That is also why I've been hoping that Steem could bounce back. Finally, for the first time in forever, the trending page is not filled with the same faces I've always seen talking about the beautiful future of Steem rather than anything outsiders would find interesting.

Steem just might be fucked. But to me, Hive is just as fucked. Maybe Uptrennd, Publish0x, Minds or Flote will work out because they don't have such an ugly circular incentive program. I don't know. I hope the best for all the platforms.