I appreciate your concerns. Thank you for expressing them.
In our opinion, the Dash governance system is broken and needs to be fixed. Fortunately for you and everyone else, you are free to choose whether to agree or disagree with that. If you think Dash is perfectly fine as is, there are ample opportunities to buy Dash and other coins like it. If you think it can be improved upon in terms of the functionality of its governance, then 01coin provides an alternative option. We are not asking you to buy any ZOC - merely providing an alternative to the many Dash clones that already exist. Of course, you are also free to believe that our development process is unreasonably long. I might encourage you to take a wait-and-see approach with 01coin, but it's entirely up to you whether you'd like to buy some ZOC or not.
We are not on CMC yet because we have not reapplied since last year when we weren't listed on any CMC-supported exchanges. We still have a placeholder website online at 01coin.io and would like to have our full website (draft version here:
https://github.com/zocteam/website) launched prior to reapplying. Speaking personally, I am confident our next application will be successful, especially since we are now on three CMC-supported exchanges, each with active ZOC/BTC trade volume. OwenRay - our lead dev - says the full website will be online sometime in April, so it shouldn't be long.
01VPS.net and dice-age.com have already defeated your "lack of purpose" accusation. 01VPS.net started out as a one-man operation by a member of the 01coin community, after all. And all community members are welcome to launch their own ZOC-supported services, with as much support as the zocteam is able to provide. For example, a community member recently suggested the project develop an open-source ZOC payment processing API. This is something the zocteam is now actively investigating.
Lastly, I jovially called you "cap'n" because your username is "AyeAye." I'm sorry if my nickname offended you.