1. Theres a GUI Bounty and people are working on it, and instead of screaming here you could just make one.
I would to but I'm just a casual coder.
2. Exchanges are working on it, its no Bitcoin clone they have to rewrite everything...
AFAIK monero is a fork of bytecoin that appeared months ago and no exchanges so far. They had enough time to bring it up.
Now, MRO vs DRK.
You forgot approaching zerocash/zerocoin.
- MRO's CryptoNight is IMHO better (X11 is not CPU-only anymore but more than that, the requirements of CryptoNight are such than the very physical architecture of GPU should be changed - read the Cryptonote's white paper or at least their website.
This is the problem. CPU coins are always botnet raped and get lost rate quickly.
P.S. I'm not against MRO I like both Monero and Darkcoin. I just wanted to say that monero is overvalued
at this stage.