The Hive API doesn't provide standard calls, a lot of information has to be saved in a separate db. User management is also completely different. That's a huge amount of changes to an existing platform, which makes building from scratch seem way less scary. Especially as a simple version is completely sufficient for us to start with.

I'd love to have a chat about your wiki knowledge though, to see what functionality I didn't even think about yet. Do you use discord?