I'm really excited about this plan!
https://z.cash/blog/the-near-future-of-zcash.html
Our development team (https://z.cash/team.html#engineers) is extremely skilled, engaged, and they are working very well together as a cohesive team. Now that we've given them these goals, I expect to see great work.
You mentioned the Sappling Upgrade could allow for improvements and features such as user issued assets, so you left something hidden there. There's more 
could you give examples of some other features/improvements it would allow, even if they're not a priority right now?
There's a label on our issue tracker for features and ideas that would affect the zk-SNARK circuit (in nearly all cases requiring a circuit change):
Very good news, happy with the work of zcash's team 
Hey!?! Wait! Please? I'm not yet ready... Not even nearly... I am zcash poor... Actually I am ashamed to say that I am Zcash destitute... All I have is the deposit slips so far ( the wallet =P)... As I am only just 3 months orso (almost the same as the Zcash release on the public market :''(....) into the forex community I haven't yet managed to build any sort of a portfolio to use to get any Zcash.... So please.... Wait....slow down so I might catch up? Also... Is it just me, coincidence, or is the value of Zcash somehow linked to Dash? ~_^