Yea, not private either...and the community seems very naive about this in general.
It definitely has it's own share of problems. I at least respect their efforts towards true utility. And community seems genuine. They arent just some pump and dump scam. Never see Nano heads talking about price.
Nano uses DPoS for voting. A form of PoS which I don't like either.
The tech itself is more interesting to me. Instant transactions via DAGs and feeless txs that are spam proof are something almost no crypto is doing. Maybe XMR could use them to improve without the PoS stuff.
I try to keep my mind open. I'm no Nano expert though.
@atxmj, @mira_hurley, @Ghostbanned7, and @vinibarbosabr (xmr and nano guy) are great follows on Twitter to learn more about it.