Indeed.  Hoping for the MN's to work as well.  I prefer to look to the future with coins.  Once this issue is out of the way and overcome (meaning once PoS is moving the blockchain at it's normal pace) devs can focus on development.  At this time, there really isn't anything left to do but wait.

I was a bit surprised . . but I'm not a dev and don't fancy myself a blockchain expert.  It is in the communities best interest: once the chain is speeding along, marketing, additional exchanges, growing the community, increasing social presence, blog posts, YouTube, Twitter,  . . . blah, blah, blah.  

We can't really start any of that IMO until there are stake rewards, MN payouts, and fast TX times.  The additional features are a good selling point as well.  These projects are linear . . and we gotta have this thing running smooth before we can do anything else.