It seems simple to me. IF the "Community" (aka. Those that control the vote) wanted better marketing / onboarding etc... they would have it. There is plenty of money in the DHF.
Your post is a great outline for the "Community" to put together a proposal to get voted on and a marketing campaign started; but it will not happen, sadly. This has been the same discussion for the past 5 years and still no action.
A wise man once told me "If you are not growing, you are going"
Unfortunately HIVE as a social media site is going. HIVE is moving towards something else thanks to the folks over at LEO creating derivatives and as Taskmaster is always point out it has the ability to be the foundation of an alternate economy. I believe this is were things are heading.
The original road map never saw the content creators as the staple investors, they are the eyes and ears that bring in the Network Effect. People gather in location and an economy is created, but they got discouraged from the lack of investment from the content creators and decided those people were devaluing their investment.
It's important to understand the whales just aren't that into the content part of Hive and thus have no motive to build it out.
So true the whales definitely have a different view of were this blockchain should be going.
Social media based on "quality" long form blogging is not a money maker anyway. I don't see any other large social media platform based on long form blogging; it is all short form "shit" posting. I'm very curious how the micro-blogging system on LEO will work out, it may have some legs?