"What sets the community apart from others is that there has always been a clear roadmap and ongoing development plans"

Great but you had said we are "not talking about a project centered purely on a fancy White Paper". So I'm glad you did list some accomplishments :)

• front end (been using, along with other front ends and communities)
• taking LEO to the external world (that is great but doesn't benefit me... I have plenty of tokens I can play around with... I even paid the fee to build my own token and share it around.... a project must offer something else than just a token)
• DeFi

I guess the answer I was looking for was DeFi. Personally, it's complexity is way above my ability to get involved. So for me Leo (so far) is a front end and token, since I can't participate in the DeFi world.

And of course, I'm happy to hear that those involved have thus far not defrauded anyone. But if they had (as some projects end up doing) then we wouldn't be having this conversation because there's no way I'd be considering putting more of my money into them. Hopefully nobody would.