So why would this project "go to the moon" after EOS? Could anyone explain that to me?
It will not. It will become obsolete. Which is great, because then we can switch to better platform.
So why bother at all to try and improve it if it becomes obsolete next year?
I am seriously worried. I am a fan of bitshares and am doing what i can to contribute, but that's just disheartening.
This is a very valid concern. For now, there is no alternative to bitshares, and since we use it, we need to improve it to make it more useful. But if you want to build a long term business on blockchain, you have to think twice, and at least have in plans how you migrate when another, more advanced blockchain comes out.
Bitshares will benefit from EOS in many aspects, EOS isn't intended as a new layer protocol, EOS is projected as the backbone of many of them allowing interconection between varios existing projects, some kind of sidechain VM, if i'm correct then all the upgrades proposed here will be fullfilled in the future with EOS, Dan mentioned that EOS will be compatible with BTS, we can think about it as ETH compatible with ERC20 tokens, but better than that, we all know that BTS is by far the most reliable blockchain in TPS, imagine what can achieve a VM with this power multiplied at protocol level, even Raiden in ETH will pale at comparision, atomic swaps and such will be a piece of cake EOS will be the door to all the crypto sphere, a truly descentralized economy, OL will become another gate no the only gate to fiat world. Its a shame that we can´t have some feedback from EOS project or Dan at this point, so only we can guess about it, after all BTS is first Dan's child.