The developers are the ones will make the project more transparent and not in a cumbersome way that will make people to stay away from it. They have to make it in the way that the transaction fee will not high and always low. And they fall to maintain their coins or token then they have to bear the consequences of the dead of their tokens or projects. And whenever there is problem facing the project developers have to look for solution and solve it without delay because right now the cryptocurrency space is on competition so if any project misbehaviour people would just leave it and go to another one.
The genuine developers always look for a way to solve their problem but the fraudulent developers have no clue of their tokens so they let it die. So don't blame investors in any token failure but the developers.
Dev teams should take 100% of the blame, they just do not realize how much work it is to make a project, and they just think that if they create some random token, and do airdrop, they could get away with a lot of money and then when they get funded they could get better coders and marketing. That's not how it works, not at all, you need to do all the marketing and coding beforehand, so that people would fund you, if you take the funds then it is likely that you are going to pay yourself before you pay anyone else.
This isn't some charity, we are not here as investors to pay you for your work, we are here to invest, and make money and this means that we will see a lot of people that will end up with a lot of trouble on the long run.