Right now DRK and XMR are the only ones getting any real attention.
Okay. But another way of looking at it is there are at least AnonCoin, CloakCoin, BBR, XMR, DRK, BTCD, Zerocash in the works, and none of those even get close to what LTC or DOGE achieved, so looks to me the wider community is still on the sidelines. So confusion I feel may be shared with others.
Zerocoin doesn't exist and BTCD has no anonymity (it is supposed to be based on teleport, which isn't implemented yet). AnonCoin is #29 and CloakCoin is #79.
I agree about some people waiting on the sidelines to see about Zerocash and that is certainly reasonable, but as for the others, I think you are a bit too close to this to recognize that almost literally
no one is waiting on the sidelines to see if CloakCoin will dominate the segment.