I am sick and tired of the rude "shut up and stick to Opera 12.x or go find another browser"-comments.
Yes, we have understood that you find Opera 2x.x the greatest achievement in browser history.
The low market share Opera was suffering was not due to being to "geeky" or having too many features.
In fact, Opera has always been technology leader and many, many features were copied by other browsers, starting with the MDI.
Operas low market share was due to lousy public relations work. Netscape died and was reborn as publicly very well received, slim (now not so slim any more) Firefox.
IE is pre-installed on every Windows system, so first choice for every non tech affiliate user.
Opera was first choice primarily for people using the internet for work, thus benefiting from an efficient interface.

Opera 20+ is merely a Chrome-clone with built in mouse gestures (at least that).
The question is, who cares for that? Who would switch from Chrome? Hard core Firefox users as well as ignorant IE users would not switch anyway.

So - no new users to gain from Firefox, IE or Chrome userbase. Alienating and chasing away former Opera users.
Who is left?

Secondly, ChrOpera has been out for over a year now and they haven't even managed to implement a working bookmark administration or an interface to their own Opera link to at least make it possible for Opera 12.x users to update.
This is just ridiculous.
The last update logs read merely like engine updates. What are the Opera developers working on? The engine is being maintained by Google. Just recompile with the latest engine is hardly an improvement.

Why is it that open source projects manage to implement a lot more classic Opera features and still use fast, modern engines such as Webkit than Opera itself?
After one year, which in software business is a long time, how much has the market share of Opera improved? Depending on the source there has been marginal improvement or a drastic drop.