Dash isn't getting beat up by Monero as badly as poor little ShadowCash.

But give Shen a few days, I'm sure he'll have an even easier time de-anonymizing Dash's "bad crypto" than SDC's (which was at least based on ring signatures instead of Darksend's broken CoinJoin).

I don't see the "awful mess" you're talking about.  All I see is huge volume and huge price increases, backed by a great dev team and community.