What is critical? Nothing is critical actually
Thanks to soaring Bitcoin all virtual losses of initial investors is erased, initial value came back, so why not wait to see ANS rate coming back to where it was earlier? Only these wanting to hedge on possibility of BTC's correction (what might be a reason of temporary less demand) have a reason to temporarily switch to BTC and get some more wind up but risking unexpected change of the wind.
If you care only about artificial growth than good luck stressing all the time. What i care are facts. Fact is project is under stable development and i wish this work to continue since real value comes from real, physically existent piece of code, live, well-working reliable system.
I understand that creating bigger hype and coin recognition, getting more resources, and brainpower can be also crucial for the project development and it's financing but in the end there must be a real value-adding product, materializing application and it's features. First things first.
Soaring BTC is also good information for the team, because it multipies initial ICO gains for project, providing stable fininacing in future.
If you are a smart holder hold your ANS hard or sell only part of it while BTC is soaring to buy it back after start of BTC correction. In relation to currencies like dollar i think it shouldn't make so big difference.
IMO thinking fundamentally chaos in Chinese economy caused by strong dollar won't pass any soon (at least two months) and yaun leakage from China causing soaring BTC will surely continue maybe even on faster pace (ofc if big fishes won't use this opportunity to short BTC hard ) since the street that is most of people didn't notice yet these problems causing this process in the first place... Look at Zerohedge. Things just started. US politics vs China din't change yet, how do you think it will look like when it actually become reality? How big devaluaton of yuan will take place then?
But also trumphalism in US economy won't last long too... so be carefull about dollar value... it won't be going up forever, same with us stock exchange madness... and expect attacks on BTC in future too, it's a new gold, both XAU and BTC are under same radar.