I can probably guess most of your points and I likely feel the same way. Especially as there are already users using it to sell votes.

Regardless of all that, Hive is tiny and I can’t see how this can be all that successful especially since there really isn’t much being offered here that anyone will want to pay for. I suspect there will be a lot of subscription trading.

I am not sure if the abuse issues were thought of or even a concern.

I offered to teach people how to balance a cat on their head for thirty seconds and show off ostriches doing chores around the house but no one was interested in my subscription.