But we are seeing that now bitcoin is no more going to die, and now everyone have a demand for bitcoin and everyone want it for their online business and the price is increasing with a faster speed, and in the coming future when halving will occur you will see the price of bitcoin will double up.
I think very sophisticated progress is being done every day in other parts of crypto / blockchain.
A large group of paid, organized, and funded professionals with clear objectives and good management - (like R3, hyperledger, ethereum, others) are sure to make Core's programmers look like a whiny little whore. Core will go to NOW and get there very quickly.