The first point ... is simply a WordPress thing...there's no real way to provide a product like ours to people who don't own their own website the way you do with a proper hosting solution.

I understand that, and I should have been a little more clear: WP in their blurb purports to offer a hosting solution which suggests, until one delves deeper, all the benefits of a self-hosted site. So, while I'm a great proponent of WP as a platform, I'm a little more circumspect about how they market themselves as a cost effective platform for aspirant/part time bloggers. As I discovered.

it makes more sense for each and every dApp and website to do its own marketing, and for Hive to piggyback the success of the different platforms using it.

I agree. I still think that those initiatives need "proper" marketing support and it's in Hive's interest to shore them up as they're really the conduit to the blockchain. Developers are not marketers and vice versa. Each needs the other. Anyhow, either way, @exxp has my vote and I'll do what little I can to support those initiatives.