I think until a clear winner has taken place, the whole anon craze is going to continue.
Personally, I see facts on the ground as having already determined the clear winner. I say this as someone who was in DRK before XMR, and who would bail on XMR for ANC were it not for the problems I see in ANC disqualifying it from dominance. At this point I think it would require a new player with a fundamental innovation and substantial financial backing to displace XMR from leadership.
By leadership I do not mean marketcap, or user-base, although those are important factors (marketcap because liquidity providers must first and foremost provide liquidity, and user-base because the size of the user-base contributes to but does not determine the quality and scale of the development and entrepreneurial communities). I mean the overall combination of the critically necessary factors for success, among which are the well-founded trust of the community in the major actors in all aspects of the socioeconomic network, the balance of architecture and design features, the quality of the software project management and development community, and the resources of the entrepreneurial community, as well as the legal and political exposure profile, and the market-suitability of the technical infrastructure.
The market is not rational in any epistemic sense. But reality forces the market to pick the most fit for an economic niche in the long run.
