There's bancor. Create your own coin using chatbots. As of this post, they have yet to conduct their ICO.
Yes, there are lots of good options. We can wait a few months- and issuing crypto is just going to get easier and easier.
But Bancor and the rest won't be live until the end of the year. And the way Bancor works is that you have an option to issue coin on Bancor- but it issues ETH in reserve at first- so it will first integrate ERC20 tokens probably- again an argument for ETH and ERC20.
Again, I feel issuance is the easy part. We have to figure out the best use case I think and increase adoption. Gold, silver, STL files, pooling 2A reserve fund contracts, etc?
Whatever we do- we have to make sure we have a community and are not a low volume coin- we don't want to get in that death spiral again where we get delisted off exchanges and volume collapses.