Cardano team always talks about how their project and paper is peer reviewed and that's their selling point of the project. However, comes to research paper, 99% of them are trash and they all get peer reviewed(even published on better conference). Cardano want to build the next generation blockchain platform but I just don't see they have the qualified team to build it. Charles Hoskinson himself is a dropout student with no decent publications and work. Despite it is called Computer Science, there is really not much of science behind it, engineering need experience and man-power, not a fantastic vision writing on a piece of white paper. Besides, their choice of using Haskell is questionable, I can't think of another reason besides they want to brand themselves as "research oriented" blockchain. Just my 2 cents.