I think we already have an amazing product compared to what exists at the moment.
If every person interested in crypto would have unferstood what BitShares is, they would all of them have invested in it. We would have a much bigger market cap and we wouldn't have these conversations ;p
I disagree. We have a fully transparent blockchain where privacy doesn't exist and a decentralized exchange that is anything but. We have smartcoins that fail to achieve their goal and recentralization introduced by UIAs.
Now the privacy thing will get sorted out in the near term, but then what?
IMO two of the biggest features of Bitshares (dex & smartcoins) are essentially useless right now.
You can either cheer that we're good enough as it is and leave it at that, or recognize that perhaps a little bit more pushing needs to be done. This should not be discouraging. Sound foundations have been built and work is ongoing, it's alright to recognize there is still some more work to be done.
Think about it. BTS has lost >90% of its value over the last year and a half, smartcoins (except CNY, and CNY is going through a rough patch, so it's a dubious idea to save in CNY right now) simply don't do what they were meant to do, and 3rd party ventures which issue UIAs as a store of value are essentially no better than MtGox or Cryptsy. Wasn't the DEX meant to get us rid of having to *trust* a third party?
If you can't invest in BTS (historically, it's a terrible investment. you and I believe this will change, because we believe in bitshares, but try preaching that to someone outside.. if you can, I have some tulips they may be interested in as well), if you can't store your wealth in a stable medium and if you might as well trade on a centralized exchange because the DEX has for the most part descended into just that, then what motivation is there for another crypto user to switch to bitshares, or for non crypto users to join in?
Really, don't get me wrong, the product IS amazing and groundbreaking, but what we have *right now* is
not enough. There is little incentive for other crypto users to switch over, and even less incentive for non crypto users.
When certain features are finalized and the environment changed to suit our purposes, then and only then do I think it's realistic to scream victory.
We are close, but not yet there.
It does not mean that all that has been achieved so far shouldn't be cherished and celebrated. But it is not enough. Yet.