@bigslimvdub. Some funding for his code might motivate him to work on it and keep the vision alive hehehe.
That is the problem in opensource software sometimes, coders lose motivation for months before they are in the mood again.
Some funding? Where is it supposed to come from? Offices in china were raided and closed a couple of weeks ago, consequently the main scammer behind this whole scam was apprehended. Which has lately found the reflection in insane market dumps. The truth be told, there is no funding nor bright prospects for this coin. A couple of abject fanatics is whats left from its army of sickened worshipers.
Unsure if talking about Aeon or not but there really are only about 10 people that really care about this coin.
I don't know where your negative sentiment is coming from. The most important factor is if there's any development, and Aeon seems to be pretty good on this front:
however it was basically worthless project wise because there really hasn’t been anything major changed other than a hard fork that took 8 months to complete.
What's your point? The hard fork introduced K12 PoW and Borromean signature, both of which are major changes and were originally developed for Aeon. Did you want more major changes? Is your problem that it took 8 months to complete? That period was needed to ensure the success of the fork. Do you instead want hastily rushed last-minute forks?
K12 is great but it should have been implemented on 12.0.
I don't see how this could have happened possibly. The main focus of the 12.0 fork was to have Aeon's code synced with Monero's recent one via a rebase. At that time most people including myself still believed ASIC resistance through algorithm tweaks to be feasible, so Aeon followed suit with the 12.0 fork. If there was a proposal to switch to K12 with the 12.0 fork, it would have been met with strong oppositions from the majority of the community. The idea of stopping ASIC resistance grew in the context of CryptoNight varitant ASICs being developed and furious debates about ASIC resistance/friendliness taking place.
Projects take time to evolve but it seems that Aeon has really “only” been focused on core code for 5 years. If time and energy was spent on other areas in that period it could have been a great coin.
It's a great thing that Aeon has been focused on the core protocol for 5 years. If time and energy were spent on other areas like mobile apps instead of the core protocol, it would have become similar to (shit) coins like Electroneum. Maybe those are better suited for you.