Well but looking at the product, they already have mainnet and wallet out in the wild unlike 99% of other ERC20 tokens. Cardano already has delivery and iteration, working with exchanges, wallet problems so I would say it is the other way around. Results kinda differ from your observation. It is one thing to just talk but results are seen in the wild. Also just take a look at their github branches, commits.
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