I think being listed on a real exchange is important, it enables liquidity and actually increases awareness for the project, especially if we get to $10k+ daily volume which will allow us to get listed on CoinMarketCap. Lack of liquidity increases the chances of dumping, since people who need the money are forced to sell at a much lower price, and they'll always be a big spread difference between buys and sells. I'm not sure why most of you are all of a sudden against being on an exchange when it only brings advantages to the project.
Also, keep in mind the devs didn't do an ICO, therefore lack funding. Exchanges will help this as it will allow increased trading and liquidity, allowing the devs to sell their tokens gradually whenever they need funding for development and more. We should be encouraging being listed on exchanges, not opposed to it.
Keep up the good work devs, and hope we can get listed on exchanges soon. You should try asking CoinExchange.io as they normally list coins pretty fast and from what I've read it's cheap to list.