I've had my coins for a long time, and gave it a few hours of thought tonight...I'm out. It would take a full rebranding, deletion of fluffy, coin name change and a lot of time for me to even consider supporting or using XMR. Maybe I'll be back then, but we were already behind the times with the GUI wallet, branding, site, etc. Bytecoin is better than this now in my mind, and in retrospect the distribution of Monero was bullshit. If you think about it, it was announced on this site and yea at the time that seems like a large announcement...in the reality of things and the world it is not. You can't say that then turn around and say Bytecoin has poor distribution when its been 10 satoshi and steadily minable for literally years. Time has changed the circumstances in many ways. Many others would prefer DASH to Monero, I'm sure. I know I'm very keen on ZEC and upcoming ETH(ZEC) as the more professional anonymous solution.
Bytecoin is better?
Do your homework. Bytecoin was proven to be a fraud and scam with their faked time stamps and faked blockchain from "2012". "Steadily mineable"? Once again do your research those "years" of mining was faked/spoofed into fooling people like yourself into thinking that bytecoin had a legitimate launch and distribution.
ZEC is more professional? Like how they release a BS hit piece on monero hours before the April hard fork? Then claim innocence of not knowing there was a hard fork despite it being public knowledge for weeks.
Not to mention that they have a 20% dev tax and are now officially backed by one of the shadiest banking actors in modern history?
Even scammers can be professional.
I wouldn't say that is a quality I look for at the top of my list to legitimize a coin/person/business/etc.
Everyone in this space needs to take some damn responsibility of their own financial decisions including success and failures.
Relying on someone's post to make you profit is very irresponsible.
Had you made profit and the market gone up instead I suspect you would not be as disgruntled as you are now.