Of course, the chances are not great. If simply do nothing, then nothing will happen, and they will not get anything right! But I think that the developers are specifically focused on the result!
It's nice to watch the project develop every day and the guys try to do something better than the rest! This is very motivating for the reason that they will be ahead of their competitors.
Innovations do not stand still, in the century of rapid development of high technologies, the emergence of such a breakthrough development as Blockchain was predictable.