I'm trying not to overthink it, either, the lengthy explorations of this post notwithstanding.

I do believe this runup is a good thing because it seems to me that sometimes a lot of people around here behave a bit like "beaten dogs," as if they don't feel our project deserves to rank any higher than shitcoin status... we need a better attitude than that. We have a fast and largely costless chain with many very high usage Dapps. That has value.