I stated a hundred or more pages ago that the problem with the coin was a lack of community. I see that is still the case.
Blaming the devs because they're not doing 100% of the heavy lifting is pretty pathetic, especially when citing "how a coin should work" when no community of willing participants has formed underneath it.
It cost many people ZERO to be involved in this coin. It cost others some BTC to do so. If you haven't learnt by now, in the several years we've had in this new frontier of virtual currencies, how to hedge your losses or back long term, then you're as bad as all those before you who complain that someone else hasn't made them rich quickly.
Noone held a gun against your head to buy into this product and it's the same as ALL other similar products on the market in that it requires a community to actually form and provide crowd-sourced help in soft skills such as marketing and promotion. The devs are coding and creating fiscal companies and brokering business deals - the community should be able to handle some simple fucking promotion. But it can't, and it wont, because there isn't a real community.
TLDR; stop fucking whining and start doing. All I see in this thread are sycophants, speculators and whiners. The only motive anyone has in this thread seems to be (from an outside observer) singular, personal gain. I have approx. 2BTC (EXPENSIVE BTC also, not today's prices BTC) sunk into NODE and I'm happy to wait it out unlike the vast majority posting in this thread.
nice post! You sum it up nicely!
I have 2BTC in this project too, but they were 'cheap' BTC, like $200-ish - but it is sort of on that level...
I would very much like to get more involved, but I realistically simply can't because I just don't have the time.
Still I tried to help out with a few small things when opportunity presented itself, and will do so again.
But the main point is the general attitude you address there.