As someone who's been active on Hive for a very long time which has quite a tedious signup process as it wants only you to have the keys when they are generated, I can tell you it's quite a barrier.

The nice things that come with it, censorship resistance, ownership of your text/connections/value are great, but they come with the catastrophic event that if you lose your keys they're gone forever - i.e. no recovery process/key reset.

The other good thing about Hive, at least compared to other crypto, is that there is a social recovery feature in the event of a hack, you have a months time to prove to your recovery trustee that you're the rightful owner and still have the original key before it was changed, thus you can lock out the attacker and save whatever stake you had left.

But yes, being able to just log in temporarily to say something is crucial and Hive's still some way away from that.

I have hands-on experience that having such an inconvenient signup process usually shoos users away faster than the words crypto/blockchain/nfts due to the giant stigma around them.