I do not think it will change on Hive. To many people that do not understand positive and negative actions. To many people that like to hide. To many that see no evil, hear no evil let alone speak no evil, fear rules their lives.
I put my thoughts out on the down vote, my simplified one extra step for the down voter, but much like when proposed on steem, still the same old same old excuse as to why it won't work with no other alternative solution, or even worse not even seeing there is a problem with the down vote system.
I do not think it will change on Hive
...just leaving aside your optimistic exuberance for one moment...lol...nothing of the status quo changes, unless it is made to change...
'When the pain of loss becomes greater than the pleasure of possible gains'...
'Mighty oaks from small acorns', and all that malarkey...
Imagine if Patrick Henry said "Give me liberty, or give me UBI" - where would be be then? lol
We'd probably (here in America) all be speaking English like those from Liverpool?
Liverpudlians do not speak English - you need to take a four year intensive course, just to ask for directions in that netherworld...but, due to the Irish lineage there, the girlies are really hot - even if you can't make head nor tail , of what it is that they're saying to you...
I myself, have ventured many times into the netherworld, motivated solely by that quasi-colleen genetics...