Speculators don't have time to research every caveat of decentralized technology.
I will be the first to tell you that if you want to to engage in short term speculation, none of these issues matter at all. All that matters is supply and demand over your holding period.
When I speak of crypto trading as being a zero sum game that is not a pejorative.
Give me network effect and market cap first, then I can hire all the developers I need to take out whatever geek coin you're working on.

No you can't. I can easily defeat you all by myself. Because it takes vision and the coders you hire will expect the vision to come from you, but you don't have the depth and breadth to lead them. And partially because you need to understand both technology deeply and also economics and also practical business. I have done all those. Very few people can claim the skills I have. I have marketed software to what would be 10 million netizens in todays internet population size.
You see smooth has worked in corporate world where he was a contractor. So he is expert at some aspects such as for example server work. But he isn't expert at marketing nor GUIs directly to end users. I bring a skill set that is very unique. Many people don't realize that. I have been very ill and this has really limited what I could accomplish.
Aeon has literally no chance at success because it is not a complete package. Many coins are better than Bitcoin, yet most will go the same way of copy and paste / pump and dump coins.
Ditto Bitshares, Dash, Ethereum, OBITS, etc.
There is nothing in Altcoin space that has any chance right now.
But who are we to tell them that? They might have something up their sleeve or who knows maybe their technology gets adopted for another purpose and smooth gets awarded a lucrative contract.
We are laying down experimental foundations at this time.
That is why I think we devs need to be more friendly with each other. And the speculators need to stop creating these wars and pitting us devs against each other in time wasting political discord. If speculators would stop putting 5% of their networth into altcoins, this place might be a lot more cooperative instead of combative.
I would love to see more reason and less emotion. When inexperienced speculators have significant vestment riding on an altcoin, they become irrational and combative (or let's say rational trying to pump and defend but irrational overall since that was a stupid move to become a bagholder).
Investing say 0.5% of your networth in altcoin will keep your reason intact. You can be on the lookout for better investments and obtain more if there is
actual user adoption and not just a bunch of plans.