I don't understand this part:
"serious financial issues during our work (systematic payment delays which resulted in a complete absence of financing), we are determined to finish what we have started."
Or this
"We fully understand that the BitShares ecosystem is experiencing some tough times"
Sounds like pure FUD towards BitShares, from Canada's Top UX Agency (by your own website claims).
It would appear from public accounting escrow, "BitShares Blockchain Foundation" that payouts amounting to $179k USD have been made to 2 separate BitShares accounts, 'graphenelab' and 'tr-zip'. You also still have $16.9k funding left available to claim.
It's all here for others to check, every invoice paid out - https://workers.bitshares.foundation/2018-09-rossul-ui
Above: Payouts to graphenelab by the 'serious financial hardship' blockchain.
From bitsharescan.com, search on tr-zip and payments made. In fact, there is $75,000 USD sitting in the account balance still - untouched.
Above: Payouts to tr-zip by the 'serious financial hardship' blockchain.
BitShares blockchain is well funded. Your worker was to provide an 'improved' UI over the reference wallet at https://wallet.bitshares.org/ and looking at your produced result, it does appear less intuitive, less responsive, has moved one main menu from right to left, and removed all color even green/red for buy/sell buttons are just grey.
TLDR: Over $179k cashed out, and $75k just sitting idle in one of your BitShares accounts. And this project looks not much past a poor mockup, and BitShares blockchain is in serious financial strife - explain ?