I feel we have all You said. We just don't have the social network part and the content that will actually make people start downloading the dapps and scroll to be entertained killing time on the internet. Because that's what people usually do when they look for social platforms!
I am a fan of the lightweight dapps on Hive and believe shortform content is a great way to get users staying on Hive. I still believe tokenized communities/dapps where people can be rewarded outside of just the reward pool is going to be key. We see lots utilizing this but I would like to see more. I'm working on a way to improve HE, will go public with the framework soon.
You do a lot of support even with your tweets asking for people to drop their links. But also You do have a huge stake and you can influence and help change the face of the community. And you can help make a bigger difference if you really believe that having other type of content here, related with many different themes and maybe even more silly and "facebook alike" per say. I don't know, something like You picking a small group of microbloggers, or 3speak users. Someone that just upload some different niche content and every month and a couple of different ones under your wing. Push their content to the hot and trending sections. Get them in touch with eachother and try to make them work together so even when you pick the next group they will still be thriving and pushing eachother and maybe be able to do the same for others. Maybe something like that would also change the view of other people with bigger stakes and maybe more of them could start seing that even a shorter posts or other niches can really bring value to the community. Just an idea.