Monero focuses less on GUI. I am buying it, but in small amounts. I want an easy to use drop-in replacement for Bitcoin, if possible.
Dash should come clean and admit about it's pre-mine of course.
I think that partial pre-mine is fine (Vitalik from Ethereum also did it. After all he can't work for free. And I can't expect him to work for free).
Full pre-mine, like in Ripple is a no-no, of course.