What is to be gained by denying the current issues we are presented with. (and I'm talking as a 'community' rather than personal or individual gain.)
I repeat: there are no new issues. It is a common scare-tactic to raise some evergreen issues when it is important to fool the newcomers.
Therefore "presented with" reveals you agenda pretty well
A wallet that tracks your fiat cost base is important to develop so that U.S. people can pay taxes, but "discussion" about it among people who don't have the capability to make it (not to say it is difficult because it is a standard requirement for enterprise accounting since 1800s) is moot.
I think the various adoption metrics that eg. AnonyMint has brought up are interesting and important.
I think that Bid/Ask ratio is only relevant in the region where you may actually get bitten by a market order (let's say 5,000 coins). Anyone can load coins to 700+ region to supposedly scare people away but only fools and trolls are deceived.
5,000 coins takes the price lower by $36 and higher by $104 as of now. I think it tells the obvious.