LMAO, botnet argument against cryptonote right now are like the 'only used to buy drugs' for Bitcoin several years ago, clever tactic to dismiss the coin by proxy association, but it won't work.
Not even close. It's an obvious legit issue if it pushes "rational miners" out of the equation. People already mentioned it requiring 45+ months to break even GPU mining. If there's little or no incentive to be involved with a coin, distribution goes to crap, bad distribution then obviously leads to bad price. Everything has a feedback loop in these things.