it's hard to say why it hasn't broken out like a lot of other tokens the past year

I was wondering this about Nano too. Presumably there's more competition now and maybe efforts to grow their user base has stalled a bit.

Also, you can't do anything with it except use it, from what I could see so it doesn't seem that good an investment coin. You can't stake it anywhere so if you're not using it the only way to get a return if is the price goes up. I can't see that happening without a growing user base.