If you will allow me to play devils advocate. I have very little faith in the mental faculties of my fellow man. Consequently I find it hard to believe that dash failed to gain traction on the darknet markets it was introduced on as a result of any sort of technical understanding on the part of market actors. Meaning, to most of them, monero is going to appear indistinguishable. What reason do we have to believe a private currency will gain traction this time when it failed last time?
and now "implementing" a DAO...
Oh my god. Yea effing right. That's hilarious! Does anyone comprehend how hard that is? Ethereum is a very serious, credible and well funded team and even they screwed it all up! Writing secure Turing complete op code is going to be the study of entire fields of science in the future. Universities will have campuses dedicated to it. Firms will pay millions of dollars for single pieces of code just to increase the odds that there isn't a mistake. And dash thinks they can just "me too" that shit. Hilarious!