I am a technician and I have spent quite a bit of time deploring the exuberant marketting resources put into the service of shitcoins and even ponzi schemes.
However, I am not far from thinking like you.
But I don’t want to believe that FIRO is already dead and I would prefer that FIRO knows success for its quality and not for some marketing campaign. FIRO is dying and the technique is not the priority yet (temporarily) the priority is FIRO survival and this requires a rise in the CMC ranking, by a rise in FIRO price.
Nobody (apart from a few enthusiasts here) wants to buy a coin whose price has been falling for 5 years: everyone wants to sell it as soon as they own it.
This continuous decline also plays for speculators who know that they always make money on FIRO by betting downwards: this explains the high trading volume. FIRO is the pump and dump theater with $100k orders draining it of its wealth.
If we want people to buy FIRO, it must first go up in price (the technique will come back later) and since we cannot force anyone to come and lose money with us, we must first limit the pressure to the FIRO sales, that is to say massively redistribute the block-reward to the masternodes. The pump and dump will cease as soon as the price resumes an upward trend.