...There is no need to find just one utility and create a coin around it. The blockchain is there, use it any way you like.
I hope you are right and Decred will be strong enough to survive and stay for longer in the crypto space.
Of course, I am researching (refreshing my knowledge) about many projects which were famous in 2017.
I am really shocked that many of them are already dead, abandoned, delisted or just not developed anymore.
Luckily this is not the case for Decred and here the team and community seem to be strong.
...in my opinion Decred, with its thesis of on-chain governance, will be a failure if indeed a motivated minority does cause a chain split.
I think a motivated minority will be able to cause a chain split.
Decred is developed to make it not possible because it would be very costly to do, but what if some bad actor would be only interested in finishing Decred project by a chain split to prove that on-chain governance is broken and don't think about the cost?