Thanks for the feedback @bashadow, I will be making an official post where the steem can be claimed back soon. The plan on Hive is for the program to continue as planned. Shares over there will stay in place. (All shareholders are always free to sell their shares there if they want by the way)

For as far as the different platforms go, I have really positive experiences with Publish0x. Their model actually works way better for 'real content creators' and content discovery and posts get a ton of views. It's not really about the money as even the trending posts do 5$ at best and it is way more centralized. It does cut out all the bs though.