I've seen a lot of Monero-based coins go bad because complexity of the technology makes blocks big and rate of blocks per hour is so high that slower hard disks just can't keep up with the I/O traffic. A lot of users are already running their wallets through remote node and that is bright red warning sign for me. Electroneum staff also seriously **cked up handling of the official mining pools and that cost a lot of people quite number of coins.
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Yeah I've noticed that trend too, hopefully bringing an experienced engineer like Andre on board will help them sort these issues out. I feel like they didn't fully think through these decisions when they were first launching the cryptocurrency.
I appreciated what they were going for with the official mining pools, but like you've pointed out, the technology it's built on wasn't really ideal for what they had in mind.
I've read some of recently launched coins are restarting from block 0 just so they can learn from their mistakes... I hope eventually Electroneum staff also realize they can't stack up fixes on top of the old blockchain indefinitely.