The sky was blue when my car broke down, but it was dark and the moon was out when it ran fine...

Irrelevant metric is irrelevant.

Assuredly, there are idiots falling for the "centralized coinjoin" FUD and that migh be having an impact, but that is the point of a destrictive troll; to make people think that irrelevant things are in fact relevant. If the masses are stupid enough to fall for it, and they are, then that irrelevant metric, a metric that may not even be real, becomes valid in the minds of those not smart enough to realize it's a lie.

We see the same issue with the "put words int heir mouths" trolls. Making up things that were never said by the devs, then claiming they've failed to deliver something that was never promised or even mentioned in the first place. The most clever one is the total fabrication promise troll. This one makes up a feature that has never been mentioned and isn't real so that when someone tries to do research on it, they get nothing but the false mentions of the things that doesn't exist... It makes itself look true, and the people who think 20 seconds of googling makes them smart and qualifies as research, then fall for this troll.

Such goes politics and crypto....