Been following this coin for a little while and the community seems to be fairly positive and growing steadily.
I'm still on the fence about investing though until I can see a more precise roadmap (Upcoming features and timelines) apart from what's listed on the website.
Other than the 0 premine, what really sets this apart from Eth?
You can view the differences here, and take your own conclussions
http://ellaism.org/comparison/will ella switch to pos at some point?
It's not in the roadmap as far as i know
They forgot to post one important aspect thou, Ella is the only coin that main dev isn't public. This is important for trust issues...
Why is this so important? I think you are mistaking, there are a lot of coins with anonymous dev. In the end, this is the purpoe of all cryptos..
Purpose of crypto isn't relying on trusting unknown people. Crypto's goal is to removing the necessity of trusting intermediary people and to go thrust-less with a global consensus. But at the end you still need to trust the team behind the project (specially for small projects like this one), so i rather trust someone that is public, because if he runs with money or break others people thrust at least a public person won't be able to make it again, so he's also breaking his reputation. While an anon dev could do all that without having to impact his reputation. So i just don't see how a anon dev could be better than a public dev (with the same skills level).
Btw i'm not saying that this anon dev would steal people or break thrust, i just say that a anon dev can do it without too much impact on his side...