Couple of thoughts. When ESP first came out, and I am very appreciative of the airdrop as it was one of the best in history. So let me start with that. I have hope for ESP.
I was thrilled at the ease of use and the ONLY wallet that was capable of mining with a punch of the button.
In my honest opinion, the ease of use and the wallets went down hill, namely because they were broken. As a coin holder it wasn't worth the risk of tinkering with this or that to only get to something that was broken. I tried again a few times, didn't work. Again, still not worth tinkering with it.
I get my updates from the forums and this isn't trending well.
I have hopes for January 1, 2018. I don't have much confidence beyond that point.
If I read that the roadmap is being met or the wallet actually works with a punch of the button, great, that changes things.
But at the bare minimum get back to that first wallet that worked. I don't want to say that the project has gone downhill since then as that is not fair for the efforts of the devs or the community. But at least the wallet worked.
End the confusion of patches that never work. End the plethora of updated wallets. Come out of the shoot on January 1 with one that works, or this coin will see .1 satoshi
I think the marketing team was far ahead of the development and it amounted to hype and didn't help. That's not a knock of the marketing team. Not a knock of the devs, but something to consider. Consider not marketing something if you don't have something to back it up, which I think was part of the problem the first 11 months of 2017.
Again, let me beat this in your head....the first wallet, the one that worked, the one with push of a button mining....go back to that one. It was better that way.