They were indeed technical from what i recall (as well as political). Cant remember exactly where i read that. In this article for ex he said: “New opportunities to pursue my vision of free market solutions to secure life liberty and property.” A bit vague...
http://www.razor-forex.com/2017/03/steemit-lead-developer-dan-larimer.html
Sure maybe the problem was political in nature but i get a feeling he gives up to easily on his projects.
https://steemit.com/danlarimer/@stellabelle/dan-larimer-visionary-programmer-of-bitshares-steem-and-eos

Also EOS its build on top of ETH (if i understand) which has scalability problem, why not use like Bitshare (maybe same problem there)?
Not sure about NEO/XEM (competitors that are much further in development?)

I was wrong before i meant the Purchase Agreement not the whitepapers! It is very much so in favor of EOS.
EX:
• EOS TOKENS HAVE NO RIGHTS, USES OR ATTRIBUTES
• NOT A PURCHASE OF EOS PLATFORM TOKENS
and many more strange things i dont understand to be honest. Its not even clear (to me at least what and how many tokens you get).
I'm not even sure what you get from the sale, this is an example from the document, very vague!
As an example:

1. 20 EOS Tokens are available during a period.
2. Bob contributes 4 ETH and Alice contributes 1 ETH during the period. The period ends.
3. As a total of 5 ETH were contributed for 20 EOS Tokens during the period, 1 EOS Token will be distributed for every 0.25 ETH contributed. Therefore, Bob receives 16 EOS Tokens and Alice receives 4 EOS Tokens.
   Here is the full Purchase Agreement: (not sure how to attach in STEEM, had to save it on OneDrive and share)
   https://1drv.ms/w/s!Ag9C_L5-r1Cxg7B9Qv2iDDVUUPBWrQ

And how is this different from just buying the token from en exchange? at 1.7 dollar you get much more compared to what they explain in the end of the document.
I have to read this a few more times i think.I'm far from a expert in this area to be frank so i might misunderstand several things. I am still reading and learning every day ....i must apologize if i assume and interpret in a wrong way.