...they can't exactly just port over all of our features either easily.
That in a nutshell is it - the market basis for Dash's existence and growth.
For anonymity, bitcoin now has to boilerplate on sidechains. For performance it has to strap on payment channels and for capacity it needs to bloat its blocksize to ridiculous levels.
Once all that's done, you have a technological monstrosity that can no-longer be described as 'cash'. Its growing network effect will no doubt keep it afloat but it sure leaves the door wide open for some major diversification into blockchains with native support for those properties.
In that regard, Litecoin is technologically dead, Ripple is a bank, Etherium is an OS that might give birth to other cryptos which might give birth to some network effect, Doegcoin is a cult, BitShares is a company, Cryptonote is dead in the water having been obsoleted by bitcoin’s success, confidential transactions and its fatal choice of a credit model instead of a cash model for money. The rest are basically Bitcoin 2.0 market-oriented tech.
So that leaves Dash - the one option that happens to be targeting monetary properties that are smack down the middle of the pack. The one exception I’d make to that is Peercoin (Power PC
). I really hope it gains a foothold eventually having held on this long.
The level of censorship on this forum is appalling 
