I agree, having a hard fork every year is detrimental. The Hive price will tend to crash up until the hard fork, and then crash again after. If the devs could do a really meaningful hard fork I wouldn't mind though, i.e. instant powerdowns, or accelerated power downs in exchange for a small hive burn would be awesome. The fact is someone out there will always come up with some hair brained idea that they will want to change, and as long as they get a few witnesses behind it, all the rest of the witnesses will fall like dominoes, and voila, HARDFORD approaching.