Come on Craig, why so negative about Dash?!
You are just focusing on the Evolution release date. That sucks!
So what happened:
Evolution alpha (which is a very early version) was supposed to come out mid 2017. Looking at the roadmap this is now scheduled for end of 2017 to partners.
Evolution V1 is a released version to be used by the public in mid of 2018
I rather have a well designed and Tested Product to be released on the market then a quick alpha version for quick value gain of Dash but with too many problems which would discourage users at all.
A quote from the brand new roadmap states this clearly:
"We intend to schedule releases of Dash Evolution in a way that produces a high-quality product and provides a user-friendly experience. In addition to emphasizing quality and user experience, we will use each incremental release as a robust framework for future development. The Dash Core Team believes that taking the time to create a high quality product will create the most value over the long term. A quick rush to market would likely result in an inferior product that causes temporary price growth but long-term stagnation or decline."
Remember Evolution is UNIQUE in the whole crypto-world and certainly very difficult to develop.
But not only that, the roadmap is simply amazing with increasing the blockize gradually to 2MB and and along the journey up to 400MB for best in class capability of transaction volumes in the future.
They even want to develop dedicated hardware to support the Dash network for highest efficiency. I like boxmining YouTube video explaining more @4:23:

BTW, the TenX credit card supporting Dash will be released in July for almost the whole world, except for the USA! This was also funded by Dash and WILL be available soon. https://www.tenx.tech

Here the link to the roadmap, so everybody has a chance to get best informed by themself:

https://www.dash.org/2017/06/27/roadmap.html