It is possible that it will breathe new life into this project and maybe in the end we will get a completely new project that will be much more popular than the original Ethereum!
With all due respect to the developers, I doubt that under the power to make a project that will be more popular than the original Ethereum.
But I think its real, of course it will be very difficult, but maybe its just going to need a lot of time for development through social networks and advertising.