It would be good to hand over this project to another developer.. at least for a while so progress could be made. Why not ask Ethereum team to take this as a pet project of some sort

I think this could be cool testing platform for wilder ideas for example!
Basically shouldn`t ETH or EXP features go hand in hand with shift..?
We could see 300k in no time if this train could just leave the station at last
This sounds like what the SHIFT dev has planned. Once Casper, the proof-of-stake mining protocol, is developed for ETH on a test net then SHF is going to make those PoS changes on the live SHF network.
This coin is working well. There isn't much to do other than mine the coin and load up on cheap PoW mined coins. This is probably the best coin to be mining if you have GPUs.
No need to develop DApps yet. Rumor has it that the current Ethereum contract language is not scalable and will have to be fully re-developed. DApps will not be forward compatible, meaning old DApps won't work on the new Ethereum.