Are there coins that learned from the bungled launch of zcash and did things right according to what was valued by the community? Like private by default, avoiding perceived trust issues by being more above board, making ASIC resistance a priority, adopting a public irreverence of compliance, not being associated with people who worked with untrusted organizations and so on?
There are some Zcash forks with iffy dev support and no market traction. The problem is the kind of cryptography you need to do something like Zcash is very very very hard to get right. Zcash actually got the tech right and handled the issues they hit well. They just didn't do a good job with reputation outside of tech.
No one else as done the same tech yet themselves. A few things have launched and allegedly plan to add a privacy layer (Mina, Celo). But actually building that kind of tech is a lot harder than reputation management or standard blockchains.
