XCP is a necessary intermediate for escrow and other functionality of Counterparty, and it opens up a lot of possibilities for future uses. It's part of how the protocol works, the market hype is hardly relevant to that. Every time someone wants to create an asset, 0.5 XCP is destroyed which increases scarcity. So while it is necessary for internal functionality, it will actually become more valuable as people create more assets. Please look into all the ways that XCP is used... For example, the potential for prediction markets without central control is massive.

Counterparty is the only feature-complete decentralized asset solution on the market, so why are you comparing it to projects that do not have any of the existing features? Because they spent most of their funding on marketing instead of results? Because market traders are not going crazy over the value? Because they promised you something years in advance?

Counterparty works, the rest only makes promises. Bitcoin took years to become noticed, and XCP is still in the early phases. Why do you expect Counterparty to immediately go to the moon? This is not some marketing-fuelled smoke and mirrors pump and dump, its real... Once people stop the 'hype' and actually try using the features, they may notice that only Counterparty provides what they need to conduct their crowdfunds, DAOs, distributions and decentralized bets.

I think you are too impatient, and more concerned about personal profits than how useful the existing functionality really can be.