The DAO may not go through what Bitshares went through due to critical mass. When your dealing with over $130 million, you can fund a bunch of neat blockchain projects and not have to worry about it that much. Bitshares at $10 to $20 million market cap (before bytemaster left Bitshares (he had to)) never had the traction ethereum had which was basically an advertising fault. The DAO was even mentioned on the front page of The New York Times, which is arguably the most famous daily in the world.