Decred is certainly an interesting coin however excluding governance what advantages does it hold over other alt coins?

From what I can tell whilst the PoS/PoW hybrid system seems to solve some issues with hard forking, and potential vulnerabilities caused by large mining pools, it's more or less on par in terms of other features.

I'm only a layman so I'm probably missing something, but how does a coin like this gain widespread adoption when the main advantages are things end users are unlikely to notice?