This is due to the oligarchy that dash created forces masternode holders (great name btw) to hold their coins if they want to reap the rewards of their master status and continually try to hype greater fools to pay a premium for centralized services. What's great (or what should be great) about the world of programmable money is that if a coin fails to meet my criteria for what I want (political, investment, meme, ect.) then I should be able to move effortlessly to another coin. The creator's of dash must have realized that old world systems used greed and fear as the prime motivators to motivate its peasantry and decided that this route was still viable in a world that's half-out/half-in of the information age. But seeing as the flow of information is continually improving and the flow of misinformation (manipulated information) is continually slowing, as it has to take the extra step of meeting approval, this mode of cryptocurrency will meet an inglorious end. It's tough to break bad habits, but the information age can give us better, and sometimes worse, habits at near the speed of light.