According to the top-grade economist of this forum whom I shall not name, the loss of purchasing power of MAID (and consequently SAFE, later on) is great for all users and motivates everyone to use the SAFE network.
For the record, I sold my MAIDs (a 4-digit amount) 2 days ago at around 6000 sats (for reasons explained in this comment above) and I don’t hold any at the moment. At the moment the chart (MAIDBTC) is looking very bad (after looking merely bad 4-5 days ago), my concerns stated in that topic on v1.0 still bother me, BTC is on the upswing, short sellers are having their day and it seems no one expects v1.0 to appear before end of Q1 2016 so the mood is bad.
The short seller is not the biggest problem, but what Prophetx said: there isn’t much demand. And there isn’t much demand because of reasons such as those outlined above.