"This is just a vision, not a roadmap and many of these things are years away".
Exactly, but aren't we (nearly) there yet? Yes, we do not have the scripting language yet, but we are going to have 3 dacs in one place (well borrowing features from each other) It seems that our journey is much shorter than theirs. DPOS with faster transactions will allow for much better features.
Ethereum is the superDAC, Mist is the "wallet". Stuff with UI is a small fraction of use cases
Yes, but it sells to more users. UX is very important, and as you have seen by my tools I suck at it
Use it as inspiration