Like you've said, we really don't want dormant issues to start popping up a month or a year down the road, hence why seriouscoins and the rest of our team has been delaying this wallet the past week or two.
Aside from this wallet issue, we have the rest of the team working on upgrades to our current releases, to add significantly more content and resources for our users. In the works are also a charity project, merchant program, and one of our new members has several of his personal projects in the works that he would like to share with XBC.
We understand the concerns and will get a member to check this thread more often to answer questions and give updates. It's really helpful to us when members such as yourself vocalize your opinions and concerns in a professional manner, as it shows that our community cares and wants to see this project grow.

I've said it before, but the biggest mistake the team made was asking people to send coins to poloniex. It got people's hopes up that the wallet would be made available immediately... as normally coins that do a swap-over only when the new wallet is ready to go. People can be insanely impatient at times, any delay to them is a catastrophe or just more fuel for trolls.
Those other projects, that casino thingy, merchant program and all of that is what should be talked about here in the forum, not just irc. When teams are silent, people just assume the worst.
Personally, I think coinpayments and moolah should be targets. If you get those, you can then use XBC on lots of other merchant sites, not even counting ones you set up yourself.