should we pray for another airdrop?

how do we know if we were one of "the first 100 early birds"?

No info about the token yet

Predictions will always stays predictions, we doesn't exactly know what will really happen in the future and we are only the one who can help and decide for ourselves. Nobody wants to lose their income but we can't control the coins. So it is our choice if we still want to hold or sell it now.

i share your views. i got into bitcoin because it was a currency and could be used easily. but i still won't use an altcoin specially Ether with all the risks that introduces.

What went wrong? it is hard to say. the scaling issue was foreseen a long time ago (3 years or more) and there has been a debate over what to do about it. but the debate turned into fight over power at some point, specially with "businessmen" who only care about earning more money such as Roger Ver got involved in it. that made things to come to a near halt with bitcoin. and the sad part is there is corruption on all sides.

i really like Segregated Witness and the rest of the proposals that are coming such as Schnorr and the second layer LN and all the side chains and smart contracts. and i do believe that this is the way to go forward.
but the problem here is that all of these are Opt-In. as @1Referee said people aren't using SegWit that much!

and here is what i am afraid of, compressed public keys were introduced to bitcoin core version 0.6 on 30 March 2012. it reduces the transaction size by 32 byte per input, people were still not using it by 2015 as much as they should have, because it is opt-in. you still can use uncompressed ones and have a bigger transaction! SegWit and the rest may not take that long but it will still be a long while.

Nothing went wrong, really. It's just that the demand for blockspace has outperformed Bitcoin's current capabilities by a great magnitude. Segwit has been activated to give Bitcoin that extra push, and to buy time in the runup to Lightning Network, but it lacks serious adoption, which is a shame. Those who transact with Segwit, are enjoying lower transaction fees, but that only goes up for a far minority of the actual users here. If nothing changes in that regard, we just patiently have to wait for LN to make its public appearance. But hey, everyone is free to make use of an altcoin. It's an open market where no one forces you to stick with Bitcoin, which is a fantastic thing.

it is not "more useful", it is temporarily fixed until the disaster happens.
if you think increasing the block size to 8 MB fixed the scaling problem then you haven't understood the problem at all.