Ok I won't give any opinion on your supposition about the price we could have reached. Not sure it would have changed much.
What I agree on though is the horrible scale of exchanges!!!! It's the main reason I've stoped all kind of trading! When market goes a bit pad like in last week, exchanges simply stop answering! You can do nothing but see your profit going away!
Especially when exchanges like kraken handles so badly stop and limit orders...