ZCL up 20x and now even HUSH. Bitcoin Private being released and OP saying
bitcoinz-pod team roadmap
Follow stable zcash/bitcoin core updates / no new features other than Zcash changes are planned by bitcoinz-pod team
is not inspiring the most confidence in me.
What new features do you need? This coin have working features from original bitcoin extended with the privacy and ASIC resistance mining.
You must understand, that on the money world and at the cryptography world old time-tested features are better in 99% cases.
Example: Now, Bitcoin (BTC) spoiled by new, non-workers and dubious features like SegWit and LN. These are not working features, unnecessarily complicated, non-secure and with many pitfalls which (very possible) will be fail after start, if at all will ever be launched(LN). As a result one of the branches(BTC) was spoiled with crap code. At the same time original vision of bitcoin from bitcoin whitepaper was restored/saved at another branch of bitcoin (BCH). It's old code, but it's working amazing without any scammy new features.
BTCz also work on the codebase from original bitcoin vision (like BCH with real original bitcoin code), but it also extended with zcash privacy and BTCz is ASIC resistance. BTCz on the technical plan is already better that any other bitcoin from original branch. What do you really need more of that? Scammy untested PoS? Or maybe centralized hubs like DASH have? Or what? All whistles and fakes on other coins now only to inspire and impress investors. Real money are coins like BTCz.