The amazing thing is, I don't doubt smooth will deliver on the rebase and it will be awesome. I do, however, have my qualms about when it will be released and how many satoshis it will be worth. Holding AEON is great for what it stands for but if you want to maintain your BTC holdings, it might be too risky right now.
I have zero doubt that smooth will deliver, better to deliver right than early, what is key is what happens within the community after the rebase. Bounty's will be the fuel but the community will be the fire.
The problem for today HODLers is satoshi loss, if we go through two more BTC/ALT pump cycles without rebase, maybe 4-5 months, perhaps then we have unrecoverable Satoshi.
The fact is is that people seem to forget what it was like for Monero before all this insane pumpage. The dev team continually got flack due to not coming out with new, sexy features SOON^tm as they could. They wanted to make sure everything was running smoothly (pun intended) for the code of the coin itself before releasing GUIs and that sorta thing, which took a long time.
I understand its been a while for the complete rebase, but the new update was seriously not even three months ago. Takes time when there are not many qualified/able minded people to work on it.
This is one of the main reasons I continue to hold AEON. I think smooth has a high bar set and I imagine its for good reason. The guy takes privacy seriously. SHUM!