I personally feel that we need to keep the core people on Hive happyish while finding some form of compromise to also entice new users, although I mean there have been so many initiatives and we still haven't found the sweet spot where critical mass happens.

Lowering HBD APR to the same value as Hive's is not a bad idea and seems to then not favour HBD as a holding. Lowering the posting rewards is possibly going to not be conducive to anything positive, I tend to second what @edicted wrote. While I have no idea how long the devs have been discussing this, a knee jerk reaction in a very sensitive time of the market cycle may look like a bit of a rug pull and may scare people into worse case scenario thinking.