I totally agree with your post but it would be nice to have at least a comment, even if it's "we can't say anything because we're under an NDA". Whether we agree with the market action or not I think it's reasonably clear that it is placing a high value on counterparty being associated with Medici. But anyway I hear your point and agree with everything youve said.
On a different topic Ive been wondering recently if there are any plans for how we can drive increased use and adoption of the DEX. I know that the vending service was relaunched recently but havent seen much happen beyond that. Granted a lot has happened since XCP was initialized a year ago but one of the selling features initially was the DEX itself and the value that this would provide over centralized exchanges. I dont personally have any concrete suggestions yet but its certainly something that Ive been thinking about a lot.