I still think that the cabal(the irl one, not the hive one) running things gave orders to scuttle the boat.
The only evidence I have of that is the actions of others.
IF the destination is the same, it doesn't matter if an order was given and obeyed, or not.
We still flounder as a result of intentional changes we didn't ask for and are not helping.
Hive is very dangerous to tyrants and overlords. It contains the means to administer voluntarist government. Every vote counts, and can't be stuffed in a ballot box if no one real cast it (or this could be certified with oracles). These are existential threats to corrupt vermin that keep their power through vote fraud, through dumbing down their constituents, and through using gangs of armed thugs to force people to do what's good for them, or else.
If most people ever realized they could themselves decide what rules are just, and that they could pay for those things they wanted, but not for murdering brown people around the world, well crappy slavery-as-a-service would be obsolete overnight.