I seem to remember Fluffyponzi saying something about monero being a research project. I had no idea how literal he was.
lolwut? All cryptocurrencies are research projects, and you're absolutely clueless if you want to argue otherwise. Bitcoin is a research project, certainly one that's more far along, but it's far from complete. Yes, Bitcoin has more "real" usage, but if traditional systems are an elephant, Bitcoin is a mouse and Monero a grasshopper. So what are you acting all haughty about? The outcome is far from decided.
As for your Fluffypony complaints, I didn't like his stunt, but his contributions to this project have FAR, FAR outweighed the harm.
Monero dead? Keep dreaming, the Monero community (as measured by Reddit subscribers, not a perfect metric, but still useful) is growing at about 10% a month!