I hope 2017 will be the year of the bitcoin because 2016 was a very slow year for bitcoin and I don't want the same faith for 2017.
Hoping we will get globalised a little more and more accepted in shops etc in 2017 that would be great progress.
When it comes to usage of bitcoin I agree that we didn't see any improvement and the development has been slow so far but it doesn't goes same with its price as price got higher this year in compare to last year.
The development of the bitcoin used to be fast, but it has slowed recently. Maybe the developers are more cautious.