That is exactly my point a year later Monero only has a stop-gap solution... and promises.
Rome wasn't built in a day. Patience is a virtue. Good things come to those who wait.
I would rather wait for a masterpiece from a genius painter than have 100 or a 1000 or a A MILLION sloppy hackjobs from an average artist in the meantime.
Sure I would love a masterpiece, but if I show up a year later and see the "Genius" smearing feces on the canvas and then yelling/drooling that he is much better technically than all the other artists out there and that someday, someday this putrid crusty thing will be a masterpiece. Yeah I think men in white coats would be showing up soon.