so if you look back, in early years we saw most altcoin projects be good or at least have some fresh ideas (i am talking about the first couple of years like 2010), but when you compare it with these days every project is only a money grab thing and people only want to trade them on exchanges. nobody even runs their wallets/nodes anymore.
After all they just get into crypto to earn profit they got interested when the price was flying high.
They don't really care about the project all they care about is the profit.
Indirectly though, people care about the project. Because if a project fails, their desire for money also fails. If a project acquires success and gains positive return, they will also gain profit from their investment. This is now the trend. The success of the project is being taken as a success for money. It is not being taken as a success for the product the project is promoting or the success of the world in gaining a new technology. The success for crypto to a lot of people is the rise in price and nothing else.