I am staying with ETHW compared to ETC despite many people clearly favoring ETC at the moment.I think that ETC won't go as high as it was in the last bull run of 179 USD was last time around as it maximum peak.Now ETHW as you say is uncharted territory so I am mining it as I know it is a gamble but it is worth taking as it costs me about 15 dollars a month to mine 10 dollars of ETHW worth,so I don't really care for 5 dollars lost every month while in the next bull run I expect this coin to be at least 200 or more dollars.I agree that it would be nice if more projects and developers jump on this coin,this would immediately give an increase in value but as they say good things come to those who wait.
Time will tell. Sometimes the gamble pays off, other times it doesn't. We will wait and see.
One thing I noticed about cryptos, especially altcoins is that hype is what drives their prices the most. Without hype, the coin prices will stay stagnant or continue dropping. Whatever happens to ETHW in the next few months or years will depend on how hyped up the community will keep up