I have noticed one thing that waves ICO will fail, I have had few bounties 6 months ago, but not even one single coin had in the exchange. So not sure how many successful coins there under wave platform.
People that complain about Waves tokens and losing money on exchanges forget a very important thing about Waves. In my view the value of Waves is not the trade or sell on exchanges, but the utility of the tokens in a business. If it was up to me I would add an option to a token creator to disable all trading in the token. This way tokens can be used for what they were meant for and not form the topic of pnd or other whining about exchange prices.
The other big value of Waves is the easy of token creation, speed of confirmation and that a token creator does not have to worry about mining.