Part of the hype-and-FUD roily-boily 'round here. The ---coin fad is long gone, and it's been replaced by the "innovative" fad. And what have we got? A lot of innovations looking for a use case.
From the cosmic standpoint, it really is funny how things bumble along 'round here. But that said, "development by going overboard" has resulted in a lot of innovative and potentially useful tech - even if the innovations aren't recognized in alt prices because of the we-gotta-go-overboard phenomenon. (Oversupply.)
There is a lot of tech here now that wasn't around eighteen months ago. That's actually a blessing.
It's intersting in IOTA for me that in moves towards simplicity.
Current 2.0 project moves toward "side chaines" and scripting languages for smart contracts. And this makes things more difficult.
And I wrote already that I think that Ethereum idea of making things may be overhyped. Innovations that nobody really want. What I really want is trully decentralized lite wallet with fast transactions.
But the good news that we will get all the answers to the end 2016. The 2016 really shows what this 2.0 approach of smart scripting worth and does it makes more sense IOTA approach of simplicity.