Setting aside the memory of the DAO, the guys behind the team are billed as trusted developers. I have no opinion about them. Expanse says it wants to create a truly decentralized and independent, which is quite strange given the history of DAO and how they set the tone for a lot of projects by way of ICO and dev-led directions. New forms of democracy and identity is great, but then I do not really like gamification concepts they want to add. It has also attracted masternode seekers so a lot is tied up there and earning. No real opinion about the future into its third year.
Expanse dev team didn't publish any details about upcoming DAO, so we cannt make decisions about it. I know, that nobody wanna be failed like Eth DAO, so they prepare and check for bugs their code for a long time to make sure everything is fine. So let's wait, I think in next 2 months DAO whitepaper and code will be announced.