These days, I’m done with that phase.

Same here. Hive is the only crypto thing I pay attention to now. I just don't care for the rest. Not a trader anymore, not some weird contract altcoin flipper either. Just not interested in that sort of gambling side of things. If Hive disappeared I think that'd be the end of my crypto journey. It doesn't feel the same anymore. Maybe I'd consider buying some some smaller ones for general speculation, but at that point I may as well just invest in something else like traditional stocks.

Regarding the inflation topic: I think the bigger problem is that we don't have anything that makes Hive or HBD really worth using. If we had some sort of services or something that made spending the two an option, which resulted in some or all of it getting burned, then we'd be addressing that inflation problem to some capacity. Unfortunately everything we do have instead just increases the inflation or when transacted just ends up in someone else's wallet that'll be dumped for profit. This is the upside to chains that do have network fees and use them to reduce supply by burning either the entirety or a portion of them.