Not once did I say throughout any of this that "I thought it would succeed" nor did I say that "I thought they wouldn't", but simply answered the questions they had / stated what the cause & effect would be if they were successful, and what direct impact that would have on the chain.
The DOGE you're referring to has to do with a bridge, but has nothing to do with their
$DC token / which was the token used for gas on the network, which means that adoption on the
$DC token itself was irrespective of adoption on DOGE, as the
$DC token had its own LP pool / its adoption did not directly impact DOGE's price.
Imagine it this way... if people buy DOGE on DOGE, it raises the price, right?
If people buy wrapped DOGE on DogeOS (backed 1:1), then it raises the price, since more DOGE is needed to suffice for demand, which then creates buy pressure on DOGE so as to wrap it through the bridge onto the network.
The network is more modern in terms of its ability to transact / applications able to be build upon it / more likely to gain mainstream adoption from retail, businesses, etc. since it is able to move in a fluid manner vs on a chain where it suffers the hiccups of congestion.
The argument I saw earlier in regard to VISA is also irrelevant, as Solana itself can boast a max TPS of 65,000 TPS (which is never reaches, because it ends up messing up long before it gets there), and would congest / lag / freeze / cause transactions to fail etc.
As per whether
@DogeOS will succeed will depend on the market and whether the product they designed gains adoption; seems to have some pretty incredible devs working on it though... let's see.