I am actually quite amazed that Maidsafe is still ranked among the top 200 altcoins. Every weekly update is bad news and causes the coin to fall in price until some speculators pump it back up for a period.
I am also amazed about the tenacity of the devs. All IT geeks assure me that the Maid project is not feasible, and here you still get some people to work on a project that may never see the day of light. Do they really believe in it? Or are they just happy to get a job?
I recently had dinner with one of the world's top Rust developers. He had nothing positive to say about MaidSafe, implied the rest of the Rust community is embarrassed to have Maid using their platform, and confirmed our suspicion that Maid devs know their project is not feasible but are happy to get a job.