Whitepaper and road mad are nice and good things for a project. They tell you what is to be expected of in project especially if you are an investor. But then scam issues sprung up, recognizing the power and influence of whitepaper and road, came in and capitalised on it to defraud a lot of investors
And now it becomes difficult to trust whitepaper and road map, but it wasn't like that from the beginning.
The solution I presume now; lets take whitepaper to tell us what the project devs aim to achieve; dont use whitepaper as a reason for investment.
Scammers have found ways to make every single aspect that we could use to determine the quality of a project into nothing more than useless stuff, when so many of the whitepapers are plagiarized or written by the same people that take that as an occupation then reading it becomes a waste of time, the first thing you need to do is to see if the devs are real, if they are then you can analyze the project otherwise forget about it.