Very nice post, the crypto-bridge price is very interesting.
The main short term reason why BitShares is so low in value is probably from the Bittrex 'de-listing' fiasco, coins pricing is still so heavily reliant on what exchanges they can get on and being removed/suspended from one is not going to be fun for value along with the rumours that comes with that as well.
Very good point. And the irony is that bitshares is an exchange.