Well, "more powerful" isn't always a feature. There was some discussion early on how advanced the scripting language really should be, and since the departure o

Well, "more powerful" isn't always a feature. There was some discussion early on how advanced the scripting language really should be, and since the departure of Nakamoto the developers have both taken away and added features to it. Some very smart people have thought about this, and it's probably far from perfect. But just throwing a VM in there isn't going make things better. Ethereum has had to make some radical changes to their initial idea. I think what we saw not just with the DAO but in fact most valuable contracts demonstrates quite well that it wasn't the most suitable design imaginable. But things will move on, and new coins will appear to take its place. It has been quite obvious for several years now however that any new cryptocurrency will be bootstrapped from Bitcoin, not from USD. That is one of the reasons I keep an interest in it.