The piano hanging above Hive in the form of exchange custody tokens can't snap and instantly fall. It's more like a grandfather clock weight, because now there's a 30 day period during which any potential stake-based attack can be calmly evaluated and mitigated.

I'm still not comfortable with the potential economic fallout that exchanges risk by not bothering to use cold accounts (Binance, Bittrex, and more). And to be clear, their cavalier and lazy token handling isn't a big risk to them, but it's a risk to Hive and those who own the tokens. I don't like how that risk is externalized to us and we haven't done more to strongly remind them of better security practices.