Network effect doesn't happen in days. It happens in months or even years, and the bitshares marketing plan will happen in this timeframe.
And it seems to me that in the cryptoworld, people are very ready to change : the network effect is clearly not the same as for IRL objects. You can't change your samsung into an Iphone, so once you bought it, you're fucked. It's not the same at all for cryptos. People have no reason to be faithful. Owning bitcoins is clearly not as engaging as owning shares : you can transfer all your bitcoins into bitshares overnight, and you will have no awkward social interaction with a banker that will claim he has always been asking for your best interest.
Money flow free in the new world that is built here, and I bet that it will pour to the best solution.
While I don't fully disagree with you, the thing about the barrier-free and fast paced nature of these new systems we are building are also that they have the capability to achieve decentralized consensus on basically anything. Combine this with the necessity for open source and you have terrible hypothetical scenarios such as XCP switching over to DPOS and implementing market pegged assets, or nubits being integrated into peercoin as a market pegged asset.
Just like it is important to not rush anything and especially not rush out an unfinished product, it is also important to realize that we most definitely do not have all the time in the world, and that the crypto space moves insanely fast at an ever increasing rate.
I get slightly nervous when I see core team members express that investing in bitshares is completely risk free with massive guaranteed returns, which is obviously not the case, or dismiss the most dangerous competitors nubits and xcp (only acknowledging NXT as a real competitor). At the same time I also automatically trust the people who came up with DPOS - it is proof they are currently the smartest people in the space - I just think its important to stay alert and prepared at all times.
My biggest wish right now is that the non-contributing community will find something to do. We need to find a way to leverage every single member of the community into ensuring the success of our blockchain.