[sndean]

Not sure about it being overhyped, but similar sentiment, stated better is in this article (from last year):

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/gene-editor-crispr-wo...

It's pretty clear there are some huge hurdles before it's useful, even for your average biochem laboratory. But the effort put in to overcome those hurdles is probably worth it.