I must say knowing how developers treat the normal people.. we are lucky at hive that develpoers like 3speak, blocktrades, rishi, and many other witness are doing good job of keeping things moving otherwise we know many chains just get funds, fail the consumers and exit with money..
I feel we need second layer of people who speak in between the developers, investors and the totally newcomers and semi senior people on the chain. That's why I like the idea of townhall.. it should be in every continental region.
We are doing it in Spanish, and here we are doing the job of connecting people with Hive, but still, unless all of us doing this become a developer or fully versed on what it is needed for develop on Hive, we still need at least a few people specialized on it, even if they are not the ones developing directly on the current big Dapps.