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.
RE: Bitshares is MASSIVELY underrated; one gateway(Cryptobridge) is worth 25% of the ENTIRE Bitshares platform