Truly any chain seeking to compete should offer the maximum value for the lowest cost (and perhaps even discourage speculators) … We know cardano is offering the maximum value at the minimum cost in real terms ; the answer right now is that , the cost is born partially in the form of there aren’t enough human hours to labor over making provably secure Haskell , is contributing slightly to the feature and implementation / adoption scarcity , with the risk/reward of that, justly or unjustly upheld by speculators and long term investors/true supporters