FFWD to Oct 2020, as investors dig into the facts, shown by your post, and you add in the money behind it and the marketing spin players promoting it since this post was written, DOT is one of the most Chinese of any "blockchain"project.
DOT is along way along from the days of Ethereum fumbling the ball on how to do sharding. These clear recent developments have led DOT to become almost 100% CN geo-politically fenced for use mainly in CN to handle SCs and Blockchain "Routing" , essentially pushing Ethereum main stream adoption & use out of the CN market while still supporting all the ERC20 plays looking for TPS and PoS to show up in tandem with ETH 2.0 release and finding out they can simply port their ERC20 play to DOT to get at that CN market opp.