I've been using waves for 4months now and its incredibly easy! I issued my own token (squashcoins, if you wanna buy some). Also I recomend investing in $OCL, a Tech Incubator inside Waves. Their roadmap is very solid.

Yeah the exchange volume is still very low, but the comission are nice ... only 0.003 Waves, no matter your volume! This can put some big exchanges out of business in the future.

Also, I sugest you search about leasing Waves inside of the platform. Very cool!

Cheers!