It's entirely likely they bought into the fantasy that Hive or crypto was going to make them super rich... and since that hasn't happened, literally nothing else will satisfy.
It's super important that we try our best to keep people's expectations reasonable, otherwise we end up with a bunch of negative feelings even though the actual network is pretty amazing.
It's still amazing as a platform if one discounts the earning side of things. I got a blogging space where my content and account doesn't get deplatformed, meet people living across the globe, and earn something on the sidelines just for sharing scribbled thoughts. These benefits get eclipsed by the weight of expectations to extract monetary value for the least amount of effort and time. It's not the blockchain, it's the nature of the market surrounding the blockchain that's the problem.
Exactly! I think people forget to do a comparison with everything else out there... it's incredibly hard to earn on shared scribbled thoughts elsewhere... often you have to build up a huge audience and work for free for years before you can earn anything. People can often earn on Hive from their first post.