We are a development team that specializes in blockchain development in Pakistan. We do a lot of work on Ethereum and are looking at nem for some applications that we have in mind. But one of the greatest blocks in doing so is the delay in catapult release.
Obviously we do not want to develop software built on the current release which would be rendered useless once catapult releases.
We find it futile to spend time and effort on developing software such as advanced mobile wallets, exchanges, application specific apps, etc since nem has announced that catapult will be launched soon (actually it was to be launched last year - so it should be due to be out really soon now).
All efforts will be laid waste once catapult launches and hence it does not make any sense for the community to develop better software for nem.
So in a way the catapult delays are leading to a huge stagnation in business and tech adoption. Hope Catapult is released soon on the public network so development teams can start building awesome applications on it.