I am willing to foretell this.

Kovri will handily extend Monero's position as the leading privacy coin.  This will do good things for our image, press, utility, and ultimately value.

But in the circles you mention?  We will hear cries of "Too little too late", "We already had this", "The Monero community are a bunch of bullies".  And so on.

It's the cross you bear when you are #1.