A couple of points,
I kind of understand why people are complaining of a possible pre-mine or a lack of proper announcement, however, what do you think it happened when Bitcoin or Ethereum were launched? Would you rather have the [ICO] tag for you to pay attention? C'mon, people still mine Bitcoin and Ethereum and other coins that had some kind of pre-mine or bad announcements... I'm mining x16s because this protocol is more efficient and impact less the power supplies and cards.
Also, why do people complain about the efficiency is done in another project and not the same x16r? People complaining about this forget how open source how really works, based on your ideas, basically Ubuntu should have never existed because they should have improve Debian, or more over, Mint or Elementary OS should not exist because they come from Ubuntu... One thing is that you don't like competition and that x16r might get impacted by the launch of x16s, and another is that x16s guys did something wrong...
I have no problems with x16s, I'm mining it and hope everything goes well with the project.