Great points addressed in this article. You gave the Cardano/ADA haters a fleeting moment of hopium that it would fail (based on the headline), only to shut them down with a swathe of points about why it will most likely succeed.
Charles Hoskinson also places a great amount of emphasis on Africa, where he envisages significant growth in future, and expects blockchain/DLT and related technologies to play an integral role in this.
https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/03/22/blockchain-africa-2021-charles-hoskinsons-keynote-speech/
Moreover, he recognises the need to address and begin implementing safeguards against the anticipated and major threat of quantum computing on encryption, notably with private and public keys.
Despite its flaws at present, I still anticipate a bright future ahead for Cardano ADA. However, they need to ensure that their slow-and-steady approach does put them too far behind competing projects (Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, Fantom, etc.) as they make ongoing improvements and build their partnerships + communities.
