Understand the thoughts - but imo not the right comparison - BANK swap was meant to get the two communities closer together, which happened, eg. Bankless started a DeSci chapter https://twitter.com/BanklessDeSci, got involved in delegation, DeSci podcasts etc, and it was during the bull market so their price came down.
The better comparison is early Bio DAOs at launch prices, if you take the category of HairDAO, Valley, to AthenaDAO, their tokens are now all at 5-10x higher prices compared to launch - so arguably same $ value swap is the only that makes sense.
I helped draft a similar partnership for AthenaDAO <> VitaDAO which would now be up 5x on it just for comparison, but ofc for similar reasons some people werent excited, so the DAO lost out on that partnershi at the earliest possible stage with great terms for VitaDAO and in retrospect was wrong to assume that it wouldnt benefit from a partnership.
I think it also goes largely beyond the value of governance tokens and is mainly about strategic alignment, collaborations and advancing research together.