Wholeheartedly agree with OP. I'll add that if smartcoins/bitassets are proven to work long-term, they may be the last and only method of true ownership.
Nobody really owns his bank account, his stock portfolio nor his cash (try traveling with more than a few grand).
Everyone in this space talks about trustless transacting and permissionless innovation.
How about trustless and permissionless OWNERSHIP?
The end goal of Bitshares is the ability of anyone in the world to store wealth in the cloud, away from prying eyes of his enemies, family, criminals, or governments. The ability to invisibly lock wealth somewhere where it's untouchable and relatively stable, has to be worth so much to so many people, that my head starts to collapse on itself every time I think about it.