Never got into dash - hold a little Monero - just in case :)
uprooting it all mentally is a mind fuck for sure.
Yeah, unless it comes through a lot of pain, it is probably going to take a while for people to understand what is actually going on. The desire is, not to explore this at all.
They can certainly buy up all of the Bitcoin but what then? We will just use something different! The masses are what drives a lot of these things, not the few.
The more we realize this, the less chance they will risk trying to centralize it :) they can get in, but know that if they expand too much, they will pay a very high price.