You had me at 26,666 Kit Kats.
I agree with powering up, I say as much as possible. You can easily vote on good, well written (or recorded) content and make 7-8% APR.
Do that and in 2030 we might be sitting on a cushy stack.
Did you see Gandalf's visualization on development to Hive core over the last 4 years? He talked about it at Hive Fest:
Yeah a lot of stuff has been going on.
In 2030, if you keep adding value to those around you and harnessing the power of compounding, you might be able to exchange some HIVE for way more than 26K Kit Kats.
It's a simple formula, but like you said, some just do it differently.
Adding a little (powering up) simply makes sense and I think everyone here could afford to power up just a little to help themselves earn more in curation and have a bunch of Hive to take advantage of future price increases.