Certainly not dead but definitely needs a lot of improvement. The last time I searched there I can't find much other than other cryptocurrencies.
I can see JoyStream has similarities with Storj. Wonder which of the two would blossom in the long term.
Patience my friend. Bitcoin's first releases were buggy like hell, it was written in windows c++ which has tons of errors and crashes.
Now after 7 years it became the most secure and most bug-reviewed software on the planet.
I`m sure if you give them time ,it will be very feature-rich and all bugs fixed.