Actually Rise is on ongoing development, the Repo was private, but lately they made it public, you can check the work here: https://github.com/RiseVision/rise-node/commits/feature/typescript

From a technical view i totally disagree with you about Rise, Rise will Rise. But from an Organisation/Management view, i agree with you. The Rise Communication/Management team could have done better, they need to improve in Communication/Management and do a better job, but i think they are working hard now on it, and we will see hopefully some positive results in the next 6 months.

The Bittrex delisting thing was also a surprise and came in bad timing, but hey to Bitshare (BTS) happened the same thing on bittrex, when it was announced to get delisted it went down from ~50 cent until 3-5 cents, but months later, jumped back to about 80 cents.