I believe this is natural, not only because believers are getting fewer and fewer, but because of:
1.BTC/USD price is declining
2.MAX/BTC price had only one surge (a couple of months ago) while surges up to 3x or even 4x the current price were common
3.Lack of development and communication. I've posted this a fair amount of times in this thread. People NEED to lean on a coin that's not forgotten by its own developer(s)! The OSX client is still broken, a wallet for android is MIA, it's easy to lose faith...
Your 3rd point is the biggest reason very little has changed or happened really.
That would be the startcoin bandwagon
That's what keiser and his kronies are pimping to everyone nowdays