So far everything "wrong" with the snapshot was down to individual mistakes. Everything really worked out as planned and the XYM chain is going strong.

New harvesting rewards are really great, now it is worthwile running a node and harvesting on it. Already reflects in the amount of Symbol nodes in the network with is nearly at 1000 right now. Pretty sure XEM newer came close to these figures in its history.

As for the exchanges not sure how much influence the NEM group has in the distribution process. I mean Poloniex has never even managed to implement the new fee model for XEM withdrawals wasting 100+ XEM for each transaction.