When I started looking into altcoins XMR was around .00105 & Dash was .0061 Now it's .00128 XMR & .0128 Dash....Dash team went places in different countries and doing massive PR while the only PR that Monero did is spamming bitcointalk threads with an online game that most of us do not understand or care about and making useless threads by it's supporters.
Let alone the slow development that goes with XMR developers with no clear time limit or even a time guess from the developers, even if they tell us we will be finishing (insert what ever they are developing now) in 2017 this gives people something to look forward to at least.
The devs? Well they are flocking together on IRC on a weekly base, hang around and do some slow developments. Lazy bums all of them,
but acting as a team. Compare that to this top notch Bitcoin Dev team and their splits and their tantrums, pulling a Hearn and whatsnot.
However from an "investment perspective" I am still shocked by the last Atrides discovery. Things like that need to get fixed. And the blockchain split last month. I've been degraded into a spectators position, watching further future unfolding from the sideline.
Tacheless, if Monero had been preceeding Bitcoin, nobody would even talk about Bitcoin, as beeing hillariously outdated from technology alone. Monero base design is showing the future path. This will take some time, however.