Here's a question.  Although I am not sure you are correct to compare hashrates and raw price directly quite like this, I agree difficulty for Dero is very high.  But why is this?  Shouldn't market forces ensure that the difficulty for each coin is about right, in terms of capital expenditure and energy costs for mining each coin?  Perhaps the reason is that the market thinks that the *potential* for Dero is higher than other coins, therefore justifying a higher current difficulty than for other comparable coins based on their *current* market price?