BBR was the betamax of the cryptonote world. A more sensible emission schedule, a clean and usable native GUI, aliases baked in, privacy improvements, much faster syncing (granted, partially down to lower activity- but also to do with variations in the code like alternative PoW mechanism) , smaller blockchain in general, pruneable chain, open source miners, smaller miner gap for privileged parties, reward voting mechanism baked in to incentivize dev.. the list went on.
It's largest issue was not managing to get a community onboard early- XMR managed to get a bunch of reputable BTT members supporting the coin. and not putting in the effort to lobby exchanges to support the coin to provide velocity. The market cap and extremely low liquidity death spiraled it into irrelevancy, and there is no use to attempt recovering a coin where such a high percentage could easily be owned by a single entity at this time.. Better to migrate to a single coin, like Monero or start fresh.
I agree with some of your comments regarding the size and quality of the Monero community.
Boolberry is much smaller but does have a community. SupernNet will help BBR gain some more publicity and grow larger. Our comparatively slow emission schedule is very friendly to adding new community members right now!
I like Monero but Boolberry does have some unique advantages and there is room for more than 1 successful CryptoNote coin. There is also a fair amount of community overlap. It is helpful for coins to experiment with different ideas and learn from each others success and failures. Monero and Boolberry are not mere clones. They can coexist.
