I think it's more about where each user sees the future.

For now, all LEO users are HIVE users. LEO uses HIVE as part of its fulfillment technology. That may or may not be the case in the future.

As LEO reaches out to people external to the HIVE ecosystem - and provides functionality to those new users - the less important HIVE is to LEO. If the witnesses all gave it up tomorrow and HIVE ceased to be, LEO could run its own hive fork and keep on running with just a little hiccup.

I've been saying for a while that if STEEM, and now HIVE, is to be successful long term it is as a utility layer for popular blockchain applications. Figure each user needs 10-15 HP to transact on chain. How many of those users would it take to significantly change the supply/demand relationship? Like @themarkymark says:

In fact, let's build 100 LEOs and grow even more.

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