I'm going to give you a half and half response.
Like you, I believe the $ volume suggests this is WAY below the attention threshold of any MM, UK or otherwise. The daily $ volumes we are seeing are really low - low enough that I could easily account for that much $ volume. However, I am a small-time guy. Any time I feel that I could easily trade the daily $ volume in 1 trade, that $ volume is not very impressive!
It is so low it is clear that nobody cares. Non issue. Frankly, I would love to see hard evidence that MMs are working to suppress the price of NDTP, as that would indicate NDTP is actually on the radar of bigger players than are posting here. I have not seen that yet.
Unlike you, I'd rather be invested here than in Tesla. It is something of an act of faith. Part of it is that investing in mega-cap stocks just isn't my sweet spot, but putting imaginary MM manipulation aside, I think there is big potential here.