Wow, Vitalik seems to be fully supporting ZCash these days:

Oh has it? What research? Twitter is full of controversy these days. A load of coins with caps smaller than 100 million, have done awful lot of upgrades last year, but most are still sinking in value. While ZEC gets commended by vitalik for nothing. You know, it aint an accident that DOGE is worth more. Its a reality that is gonna persist for decades. People buy DOGE because of its memeness. And why would anybody buy ZEC?
for nothing??
ZEC leads the way in Zero knowledge proofs
it has 10+ forks that follow upgrades
Tron, ETH , ETC , Cardano, Cosmos , Polkadot all confirmed that they are going to use Zcash tech/features in the near future
it means something, doesn't it?
and Vitalik is not the only one who commends ZEC, there are plenty of other people doing that , more famous and less
i bet you just follow some trash people on twitter and believe to every word goes out of their mouth, too lazy to make your own digging
thats the only reason you can say "ZEC gets commended for nothing"
sorry mate