Most HEX criticism boils down to two things,
- the origin account gets too much HEX
- the AA ETH probably goes to RH, and It's too much

If you remove those elements HEX as a non custodial interest paying crypto with advanced game theory and anti dumping features is pretty cool.

I propose a revised FreeHEX model as follows.

1- open free registration for FreeHEX , say 3 months
2- divide 1 billion by the number of registrations, that amount becomes a  HEXstake
3- create 1 Billion HEXstake tokens and open claims for HEXstakes
4- replicate the same 350 days of AA using the HEXstake token instead of ETH, users mint their own FreeHEX
5- there is no FreeHEX origin account
6- season to taste with Bitcoin etc snapshots and claiming using other cryptos (e.g. HEXdoge)

To add referral capabilities you could add an additional 1billion FreeHEX that gets paid to referrers during the sign up period.

There are many other versions one could propose for a FreeHEX that removes a single entity controlling so many coins, it is inevitable somebody will design a better HEX.

RH would be pissed off (he has not open sourced his code but it is 100% visible), and every HEX critic would promote FreeHEX, the resulting battle gets mass attention for the project