Many people believed BitGrail was a good guy, a tiny minority thought they were evil, and few believed that they were just plain stupid. And we believed that a centralised entity can paradoxically store Nano better than some web wallet, and waited patiently for Ledger support.
It's a shame that this stuff happened to Nano as the community is one of the best in crypto, with quite a lot of developer involvement [1].
If Nano meets it's TX throughput and speed guarantees, all of that while proving that the network is resistant to spamming or can cope with it by chain pruning effectively, this little DAG wunderkind will definitely be here to stay.
A large part of the early holders may be bitter by what happened on that Italian exchange though.
Nano's struggle resembles the Bitcoin Early Days. Being a Protocol Adopter means ultimately embracing the idea of being a lab rat. And rats may inherit the post-human (or post-fiat money) world.