The thing is, all the coins are speculative bets on future adoption (or just speculative assets to trade for fun and profit). The metrics I listed are better measures of trajectory toward future adoption than the ones you listed, which are more about current implementation.
Well my comment was actually just in jest, poking fun at your seemingly biased list. I'm sure we could go around and around about what investors see as important and what could lead to long-term mainstream adoption, in an experiment that has never been done before. DASH and XMR (and pretty much all crypto) are travelling in uncharted waters.
As this is the Monero speculation thread, I speculate that unless some new form of super privacy coin throws its hat into the ring, XMR has the future strong privacy market locked up. DASH on the other hand, I think will have its future position as a protocol level payment platform, based on current development roadmaps.
Either way, there is going to be so many users (and money) flowing into crypto in the coming years that any coin that can hang on in the top 20 is going to see unprecedented gains. We just need to be prepared for when the floodgates open, and have our niche markets well defined and polished.