Are we? It is the DRK fan boys that keep coming to XC threads and spread FUD not the other way around (Official DRK twitter even spread FUD about XC, does that tell you something?). I want DRK to succeed, I just think that XC has much more potential and delivered more in weeks than DRK in months. 
One can deliver you a ton of rotten meat or a kilogram of fresh meat. What would you rather eat?
Coin forwarding = broken technique because it is based on trust to the node to not steal the coins.
Satoshi invented trustless transactions and now we are regressing back to trusted transactions.
You can argue this is "progress" or "innovation", but in reality it is not.
In that regards, DRK seems to have the same problems as XC -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=641178.0
But why you DRK fan boys (and devs too, it seems, from my point above) are so concerned about XC? And why did you twist it around when the facts (the same stated above) clearly show that?