IMHO, but I don't perceive an "anti-marketing sentiment". More like being conservative right now to stay behind the noise of Mtgox and Auroracoin and whatever new IPO coin of the week. Once the new website design goes up, a broader community is formed, the web wallet goes up, we get the security review done, and the GUI is improved, then absolutely go all out.
+1, valid point, good to match the PR with progress.
website should be at the least collecting emails into a mailchimp account, i made the mistake of not doing this early on with the mastercoin.org website and probably lost out on a couple 1000s of emails when msc hit coinmartketcap.