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The term a fool is born every second comes to mind.

Yet another thread on these coins (modern commemoratives), where I haven't read a reason why anyone will or should want to buy it, other than for the low and falling mintages.

That's the mindset of speculators, not collectors and there is your answer for the declining demand and dead market. A long and growing list of uninteresting themes and mediocre designs with essentially no collector appeal.

What's going to make it more interesting to collectors later (as opposed to speculators) that doesn't apply now?

The mintage is approaching 1000 and may fall below it. I doubt there are more than a few hundred who want it as a collectible with most of this subset probably buying it just to fill a hole to keep their set up to date.

As low premium bullion for someone who wants variety in the gold they own and liquidity, it's competitive.

Otherwise, it's too expensive and not sufficiently interesting versus what the same money can buy in other coinage. There are more interesting coins available for the same price or near it.

To me that's neutral toning. It neither adds nor subtracts from the eye appeal.

@braddick said:
For what it's worth, I am certainly not adverse to collecting whatever you want and how you want.
That kind of goes without saying.
In fact, I enjoy collecting these 'slicks' myself.
Here are a few:

I just never suspected the pricing would sometimes now reach 4X's 5X's the silver content value.

Those are great especially that last Morgan