Thanks for writing this. I started converting all of my ETH to NEO about halfway through the CTO's speech in the conference and have been buying all the way down (the recent network backlog due to scalability issues and ICO irrational exuberance along with the GDAX capital coup have helped spur this decision). I'm also planning to spend half of my time diving into the codebase more and hopefully I can help a bit with the Chinese/English developer bridge.
Every one of your points was salient and needs to be heard. I think reception will be positive. This is a team that has obviously been working very hard for a long time and we're behind them now. Over the past week they've had their first taste of success, but this is theirs to fuck up now. These next few months will make the difference between yacht money and generational wealth. Time to focus and get this right.