Yeah I just see Korean but you're right the same accounts dominate. That's the age old complaint of The Trending Page. That it never did represent the whole and the voting system served the few.
You also touched on the major issue of here then. That big money left and doesn't come. So your vision, and future development, does in a way (in my view at least) exist as the make our break for this project.
Because I completely do agree that Hive (regardless of bad history) has a frontrunner position to break out and attract enterprise and a bulk users. The ease-of-use and system stability/scalability is what I see as the missing. The world is also clearly primed for that uptake.