I don't think anything major will change in any short span of time. Development (and the unexpected issues encountered on this chain) mean that there'll be a huge span of time required for migration to another architechture.

Price wise, we've seen the buy the rumour, sell the news, the trick is to stay in the news cycle consistently to get the word out.

The exasperated efforts of about ~200 steemians to try and get the word out to this point is effective in their local communities and spheres of influence, but hasn't been able to penetrate very far out of the crypto sphere.

Justin Sun seems to be that go gettter that tries to put it out into normal town.