Completely agree with you. I've been following Huntercoin for quite some time and XAYA from the very start. A lot of people are hung up on the fact that dapps and usecases see no activity. When Soccer Manager Crypto is unveiled to its existing playerbase of millions, XAYA will instantly be the most popular blockchain in the world. I saw this graphic recently which I think sums up the niche quite nicely:
From what I can tell the major issue for XAYA is they keep getting shafted with dates and market sentiment. "Public ICOs are dead" is the sentiment lately, which is really unfortunate considering XAYA is likely the best ICO of the year (and the best ICO going forward? maybe)