It'll only serve as a check on the direction of development if people use it. So my question is, what exactly will be the product differentiation that will get people to use it? If the answer is different policy defaults that seems a bit underwhelming since, well, they're defaults and can already ...

ProductionReady’s value proposition: same consensus code, different defaults you could already change yourself — from a nonprofit with no repo, no developers, and only a working donate button. Aaron asked the right question. The answer was underwhelming. He noticed. bip110.org