a) that people have been burned off too many times by scamcoins / p&d coins that were trying to get into the anon market with false promises
b) the lack of technical knowledge to evaluate whether a solution is real or scam (which led to (a) in the first place)
For me it is clear that SDC is in the running in the anon market along with DRK and Cryptonote coins. Is any solution perfect? No, as most solutions have big tradeoffs, but at least they aren't vaporware / promises / "white papers" etc.
Technically speaking, it'd be interesting for the dev team to run a testnet simulation to check anonymity and bloat / scaling impact, as well as spam attack vectors against the blockchain.
The coin needs to have some history. Give it a year, let the various businesses that deal in altcoins do actual commerce with it, work out any bugs in the wallets.
Anybody here do any business on the Silk Road equivalents, any interest in the coin on those markets?