A system that restricts people from commenting, writing posts, posting photos, a system that restricts activity cannot become a strong social network.
No user is restricted from commenting, writing posts, posting photos on Hive. Only Steem blocked many accounts from transacting.
Old leaders and today's HIVE witnesses have made so many ugly moves because they are not creative. If you look at all the applications that exist it is just a copy of already existing projects.
Most projects moved from Steem to Hive. They are not copy of old projects, they are old projects. I didn't saw any hackaton on Steem, but on Hive there were 13 new apps created in 2 weeks. LINK
Here are some stats from 3 days ago - link.
Daily number of votes
Daily number of account transacting
As you can see, there was big drop in both account and votes, since steemauto.com was shut down. There is less than 15k users left on Steem, but over 5k is Splinterlands, which is moving to Hive on June 1st.
Check out this dApp tracker: https://www.stateofthedapps.com/rankings
Steemit is on 8th place with only 1600 daily users, Hive.blog and Peakd.com combined have almost twice as many users.
Once Splinterlands move to Hive and in 1 month most Hive users will power down their Steem and left, we will see which chain have more users and better dApps.
P.S. Sorry, I replied to wrong post with this comment yesterday.