Clearly it is a complicated topic, but I take a very simple view on it. Any shared systems (especially monetarily based systems) are based upon trust. Many people want to get away from the governments and banks because they no longer trust them. Their default response is to then move into cryptos. The accompanying default thinking is that if it's open source, it can be trusted. This isn't true at all. The trust is completely based upon the teams and people involved in any of the projects that you are engaging in and buying coins or tokens from. The most important point here is that there are a hell of a lot of reasons not to trust the EOS team despite the fact that so many people want to believe in it. Caveat Emptor!
In addition, I agree that symbolism of a circle and star don't necessarily mean much, but this is NOT circle and star symbolism that we are talking about here. Anyone with a good understanding of symbolism understands exactly what is being spelled out by the complex symbolism being applied with EOS. Those that don't see this are either those that simply don't understand the symbolism because they are too inexperienced or don't WANT to understand the symbolism because of what it implies and because of the ensuing cognitive dissonance associated with this meaning.