Well written. I remember, There were a lot of posts on steem explaining this matter back in 2018.
Btw, it is high time HIVE should stop pointing to STEEM white paper. I'm of the opinion that UIs of HIVE blockchain apps should stop resembling that on STEEM. Still, a long way to go to create our own identity.
Yepp, I think it is just a matter of months before hive develops its different identity, which would be a lot better than steemit.
I disagree about the Whitepaper point. Unless we have new equations and drastically different way of functioning as a blockchain we can't have a new whitepaper for the sake of having it. I agree that the UI and links etc should be updated. But white paper link should be to the STEEM which was the product of mainly Dan Larimer's thought. You cannot substitute original idea. An alternative is to write a new white paper with updated equations and cite STEEM white paper in it properly.