@DeBryne
I really like Monero and all the possibilities it brings with it and I own enough of it.
What I do not like to be honest is some growing FUD against Ethereum. I have read a german blog lastly, about a meeting in Germany, where Fluffypony has also been speaking, and the autor concluded how he liked the idea of XMR but disliked the negative attitude and speech towards competitors. I have stated this one time and do it again, although it might be disliked: The Monero community should concentrate more on own achievements and less on others. Only losers complain about the competitors, while they go far ahead.
To cite from your quote: "It MUST be useful to end users in some way, and that use should be obvious. "Turing complete", smart contracts, etc. is NOT a use case."
With all respect but this is complete BS. It is not the "Turing complete" and "smart contracts" which an end user would use, but applications built on those functions of the Ethereum network. Ethereum is running away and may take BTC crown faster then some think or at least share it with BTC. Serious companies are supporters of ETH or ETH based projects. Big mass media and financial newsletters write about ETH, a whole ecosystem is growing, while an army of ETH developers thinks how to implement more privacy securing functions into the network.
On the other side we wait for the official GUI wallet and call Ethereum a P&D coin?
Cmon.
[1] First, regarding bolded, Fluffypony didn't speak in a condescending way towards other altcoins. It is very unfortunate how this was misreported in that German article, but it is far away from what was really said. I actually agree with the rest of that paragraph and it makes sense to say if you have to rely on the article, instead of what was really said. For what it's worth, I think there will be a video online of the presentation soon. You can determine yourself if it was condescending and I am confident you will conclude it wasn't.
[2] First, that wasn't posted by me, but by a reddit user ferretinjapan. This is his own personal opinion and if you want to challenge him on it regarding the Ethereum part you should do so on Reddit. Perhaps I should've made myself more clear to the extent that I agree with the general gist of the post itself, whereas I may disagree with some more specific points of it.