I think the only thing that brings coins massive popularity now is a pump, not the features.
They might help but ultimately people will lose interest unless there are constant pumps
that keeps the hopes of a large profit alive.
I completely agree with you...There are some great coins out there, but a good amount of them never get a huge amount of press...Usually, however, the users just say 'Oh, this coin will get noticed solely because of it's features' so they never promote it. So, keep up the tweets and stuff!
that's what happened with fluttercoin. the only coin with proof of transaction and the dev thought innovation would be enough to make it popular and didn't focus on promotion. sure it hasn't died, but it's taking forever for it to get popular. mastiffcoin dev has a better grasp on promotion though and is getting a nice good slow burn up to the big features that are coming out.