The DAO thing goes to show how dumb most 'investors' are. How many successful and profitable crypto only projects have there been? How many ever returned any money, let alone profit to the people who threw money at them?
I'm gonna guess that it's probably less than ten or twenty out of the hundreds or thousands that have come and gone in bitcoin, let alone something alt based. Did this little statistic not occur to anyone who put their ether in?
These guys called it a month ago -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf8qhxJwN8c&t=17m10s