Anyway, it's all stupid because at the moment only XMR is advancing towards that goal of mass adoption whereas the one hurting that goal are the designers of the technology.
It's already a politcal movement that looks a lot like bitcoin. It's a wonder such smart people can't see it - ah greed !
^This

You shouldn't be so fast, you know? There are a lot of discussion thread and dialogs here that can easily let us understand that "XMR engine" isn't so clean. Somebody believe that monero devs just stole their technologies, but anyway - they failed on the mass adoption way
Nobody failed, and nobody succeeded on the mass adoption way, in the world of cryptonote. This is just too early.
But I hardly believe creating dozens of copy-coins with slightly different numbers is going to help mass adoption of anything.
Do you think that something like
http://www.coingen.io/ ever brought anything useful?
I'm really disgussed by 99% of the alt-coin world with useless copy-cats and so little innovation, so much greed and so little normal open-source spirit cooperation, etc. I find it sad that cryptonote is apparently taking that way. Since that makes me sad, I wonder what are the motives behind, this is a legitimate reaction.