... and usefulness of end product.
Tell me about it! How useful is ethereum at this stage? What meaningful smart contracts do they have? Slock.it?
BitShares was on the 3th place of coinmarketcap by a useless 1.0 wallet that even the devs admitted it was "unable to use for normal people" . so .... no one really cares about usefulness on the market .
I bought into Ethereum around a $1.70. I'm speculating that Augur, Plutus (Bitcoin and Ethereum contactless payments) or Slock.it will bring attention to Ethereum platform. It's the same gamble I took with BitShares with Play, Vote and Peertracks. I wish success for both platforms.
IMHO, to outsiders, it looks like we're in constant flux, constantly changing the rules and our identity of what we are as a platform. This is just feedback from a small sample size of people I know in the space. If someone created an FBA for a super simple interface for the existing prediction market code, I think we'd see a renewed interest. We need the killer app!