Investments have "legs" because they do useful work. They don't have legs just by holding.

One half (50%) of Dash's supply goes to the drain. That is to say it is spent on a network resource that does no work, or at least work that costs only around 1% of the Dash budget that's invested in that "work".

When you deposit your money in a bank you earn interest on it (or used to). But that interest did not simply accrue by virtue of you money sitting there. Somebody had to "put it to work" which is very difficult. They had to find companies actually produced goods and services that people want. Those companies had to be profitable. that profit had to be sustainable.

Only after all that evolutionary effort and growth was there any interest to be had on a bank deposit. While cryptos are synthetic assets, they still have to have a genuine economic basis for their returns. You can't simply "divert" the mining supply to large holders and pretend it's an analogue of the legacy banking system when those investments aren't doing any measurable work.

Dash masternodes are good, but the quantity of core coin emission they draw is simply ridiculous.

We'll never be competitive with the reward ratio crippling Dash's mining market to such an extent while monetary velocity is so low. We need to set the operating profits at neat parity as possible for a start. That will at least make us competitive again with our commercial peers (in the mining sector). Only then can we start to promote features which will put us ahead of our peers.