Aeternity is one of the worst managed blockchain projects. The founders received millions of dollars (more than Ethereum itself) and Yanislav Malahov said that it is not true, he said that they have not received US dollars. Sure, they have received ETH and BTC which are magnitude more valuable than dollars. So it seems that the mismanagement of funds is even bigger that anyone can imagine.

The other lie they were feed us is that there were necessary to set a mining reward high. Millions of dollars were paid to miners to secure useless blockchain with no real transactions nor applications in the expense of tokens holders. Finally those well paid miners that "secured" blockchain decided to attack it and received even more stake. But now, were mining difficulty is all time low, the Aeternity founders said, that is fine, Aeternity is secure regardless of it. So why they have decided to waste millions of dollars to mining rewards instead of spend these massive amount of wealth to secure it from the beginning.

So now you know that and I repeat again:
Moreover it is managed retroactively instead of proactively.