Totally flawed argument. Usability plus profoundly powerful privacy technology is entirely different from usability with nothing to really make a coin useful or valuable compared to hundreds of others.

A low market cap does not make a coin desirable. The contrary, actually. If any of the other CN coins would take over XMR marketcap, then it would be really bad.

I can't see it happening though since their community is smaller, and all the devs are in XMR. Just stated the fact.

Taking over DRK would indeed be a good thing.

Regardless of what is decided concerning the emission, I am staying with XMR. The fundamentals are still on its side, since there are no serious contenders in the true privacy niche.

The price is so cheap that buying more starts to be a real option Investing 1% more of my wealth to XMR at these prices is quite many coins 

I am not sure why then Monero Charts says that:
16th November at 0:06 was 4,644.515 coins and
17th November at 0:14 was 4,663.028 coins.

so 2 days ago was generated around 18.513 coins

Hope the price will stay under 0.0016 for a while, need a little more time to acquire.

Edit: Bought 3 BTC that will be fully spent on cheap XMR

I am beginning to doubt that argument.
What if Monero's marketcap finds its bottom at - let's say - 800 000 USD, stabilizes there and after the wallets are released start a bull market.
The wallets currently will not give any positive push to the prices since it is already baked into the price (still).
A coin has to find the bottom first and then it is ready to start rising. Why should we keep it artificially too high? Only the botnetminers benefit from the inflated price. Botnets are dumping even if monero costs 0.0001-0.0005 btc and there is probably better time to start accumulating from the newly mined coins. Accumuluting at that level is almost free of charge and I am looking forward to it, patiently accumulating cheap coins that will push my average buying price through the floor.

I'm sure the NSA already can.

Amazon doesn't run nearly enough masternodes.

Ah, actually we agree. I referred "the point of maximum pain" as emotionally, not that the lowest price had been reached. What I mean is that (imo) hardly anyone is emotionally attached to the uptrend anymore, and could not (and would not) feel any worse if it goes to 0.001, even though the (as big) slides from 0.0045->0.003, 0.003->0.002 or 0.00225->0.0015 felt very nasty. Now if it indeed drops to 0.00075, I don't believe people will feel like jumping the bridge, which they definitely would have felt at 0.004 if presented with 0.002 (and when it did happen).

When price is not going our way, we stick to the fundamentals. Everyone would like GUI, DB, and emission to be fixed, but while they aren't, there is still no viable alternative in the privacy coin segment. If there was, then Monero would have a hard time. Now that the price is having a hard time is just something we have to take as a fact, and act accordingly, buy, sell or hold.

Unlike in previous times, there is now great money to be made in Monero. Percentage moves are large and volume is there. Situation is good for those who have any assets outside their XMR bag currently.