Here's the problem. Most people, and i'm going to guess over 90%, are here to try to leverage the overall move of the public to blockchain tech. They are trying to profit by beating the banks. They are trying to leverage the technical superiority of bitshares compared to bitcoin to achieve a higher beta return.
What you are talking about is head in the clouds philisophical type of stuff that these 90% are not interested in. You might not think that is the case based on reading the forums, but these people are voting with their feet and leaving bitshares.
Bitshares was in the great position to be a decentralized exchange, with increased security, and 0% chance of being mf globaled. The amount of traders that would have embraced this would have been huge... i personally know very influential traders that fear that the markets will be taken away within the next 10 years. With bts that would have been impossible. All we had to do was grow that business... but we killed our golden goose. Unable to build and grow what could have been the cornerstone of your new free society. It's a lack of focus, which has been bitshares calling card for over a year now.
I hate what has happened to bitshares. It's some ideological play pen for large holders and founders at the expense of the smaller holders. I'm going to continue to hold by bts because maybe I'm missing something bigger... but when I see core dev's selling all their personal holdings I fear I should do the same.