It's a bit baffling.
Shadow now uses similar techniques to give a comparable level of anonymity to the cryptonote coins, has a beautifully designed and user-friendly wallet produced and maintained by the core team (with encrypted messaging), lite-wallet functionality and staking mobile wallets (granted they need to be upgraded).
My stock response to your complaints about the price in the past has been that the altcoin market's massively irrational, and those figures only seem to reinforce it.
I'm not sure what we can do about it, but I'd like to hear any ideas you might have.
Do you expect that every time a new coin comes along that is as good or even slightly better on some aspects than the old coins everyone should dump their holdings and buy the new one? That would make one interesting financial ecosystem.
Shadow is not just slightly better than the cryptonote clones. It has several big advantages. The main one being it is implemented onto a Bitcoin blockchain so it can plug into existing infrastructure much easier. It has an easy to use functional wallet with amazing features, while other cryptonote coins seem to struggle to even provide a functional GUI wallet for beginners. Shadow seems to have a huge dev team. I know Duffield says that darkcoin has the second biggest dev team in crypto with 10 developers as well as many testers. Shadow seems to have a team that can give the DRK devs a run for their money, hence why DRK tried to acquire the team in the merger proposal. They have built a lot of stuff, and the marketplace will be coming in time. Once that happens the project is going to get a lot more attention. Right now people don't really know about Shadow, they are too enamored with pump and dump scams like paycoin. If we build it they will come. Price is ridiculously low right now, its only a matter of time before it booms.