Thanks for your answer, and for taking the time to comment on my thoughts.

I feel it important that I underline, that this is not meant as as hard a criticism as it perhaps sounded.
I actually like Gridcoin very much, the idea behind it is good, and is has been working fine.
I am sadly not a programmer, so I cant help fix things. I only try to point out the shortcomings that I see.

But perhaps something could be learned about, that when the network is in its current state, information gets important.

They dont have to say much.

Just a short "Yes we know its broken, and we'll fix it, hold on", or "Everything is allright, the network just needs to fix itself", would probably put a lot of peoble's minds at ease.

Right now I think the maintainers of gridcoinstats and / or grcpool are frustrated with the state of things.
I would be, if I tried to provide a service and the network seemed to work against me.

Now I'm just hoping that the problems we are seeing gets fixed soon, so that we can have a reliable network back :)

Added later:

As to the dificulty of joining Gridcoin, yes it seems very hard, and many of my friends would have a hard time too.
I had the benefit of being a long time Boinc user, so I know that part of the system in and out, better than most I suspect. But still it was very hard, and with a steep learning curve to join Gridcoin.