I have been studying the roadmap for POW currencies like Dash and it was after reading this article by Evan that sent me down the rabbit hole: https://medium.com/@eduffield222/how-to-enabling-on-chain-scaling-2ffab5997f8b

In this article's responses, I learned that Evan Duffield appears not to even know about DPOS systems like Bitshares, Steem and EOS, as evidenced by this comment:

After thinking about this deeply, I began to really think about the fact that POW mining is wasteful of energy. It was at this point that I realized Dan Larimer invented Delegated Proof of Stake (DPOS) in order to reduce the waste of electricity.
When I found out that Evan was not educated about this, I felt disillusioned. I was actually shocked that he had no knowledge of how DPOS works, and its advantages.
I still do believe that Dash could potentially be the next PayPal because its governance system is pretty good, but I also realized that my core values are aligned more with DPOS systems, as I have seen how they operate and how they can exist as a very streamlined, and powerful method of consensus in a community. I want to think that Dash's technology and scaling solutions will be going in the right direction, but I am also concerned by the fact that DPOS has not even been studied.
With all that, it should be known that I am still invested in Dash right now. It still is better than Bitcoin, so even though I don't think it's perfect, I think it's much better than the disarray of Bitcoin...
I hadn't articulated my thoughts on this until now as I generally don't like to stir up controversial topics, about which none of us knows the future of....
But I want to be honest about why I am not putting in a proposal. It's because the technology for scaling is going in a direction that I think is short-sighted.