I like the idea of what etheruem was intended to do but I don't like the managing of the project at all.
Simple undeniable fact is they ran out of money before coming even close to finishing their stated objectives, starting with very respectable budget of around $10-15 mill (depending on what BTC price you use). Even for $10 million they should have gotten much closer.
That is 100% proof of bad management or fraud.
What the project was trying to do was way overhyped anyway. The easiest way to provide a better platform for smart contracts on a blockchain would be to start with BTC and improve its script capability a little bit. Literally nothing else is needed.
Which is why Automated Transactions exists and Counterparty and others were able to implement ETH-like systems with none of them spending anywhere near what ETH spent and all of them getting more done in less time.
Someday Monero will probably have some smart contract capabilities (though I personally hope it is on an interoperable system like side chain or an optional daughter chain or something and not directly on the main chain) and we too will do it for much, much less than $15 million.
