bitcoinz-pod team roadmap for 2018- Follow stable zcash/bitcoin core updates / no new features other than Zcash changes are planned by bitcoinz-pod team
Zcash roadmap for 2018:
https://z.cash/blog/roadmap-update-2017-12.html Zcash Sets Roadmap for Blockchain Upgrades in 2018Core features planned by Zcash in 2018:
- further upgrade zcash's performance, security, and usability
- improvements in privacy transactions
- smart contracts
Note: BitcoinZ will always have POW core client.
Near term goals:
- release 1.1.2 - stable version of zcash 1.0.13 merge, new checkpoints, collect all volunteers seeders and full nodes list to not have problems with connections
- publicly available testnet nodes + seeders
- upgrade bitcoinz-win to latest zcash version
Note that we have many teams. All teams may have different goals and roadmaps

If there will be no new features and only merging Zcash changes that Zcash and every other Zcash clone also have, then why would people use this over the others?