There are other aspects of the coin that are highly dubious.
Yea that might be true, but I am more concerned about someone dipping their hands in my pocket. I am trying to run away from that. I looked at many coins and a lot of them have questions. For now I put in bytecoin what I can afford to loose. Instead of smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, do half take the other half and gamble. I would love the devs to stay anonymous, no one to squeeze.
One day it might be used to do commerce, who knows
I don't think you have to worry about malicious code. The worry from my part is that the evidently shady Bytecoin team can get hold of your money by some neat marketing/social engineering. We know they don't address the vast number of Bytecoin sockpuppets. They never properly addressed
rethink-your-strategies long post either. That should tell you how unscrupulous they are.