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I'm not too surprised the trend persists, if I just follow the money. People like to bet on new(-ish) technologies and hypes, hoping to be the first in some brave new world - like with personal computers, the internet and mobile.

Didn't quite work for crypto or VR. I think that's partly because the economy changed: I don't remember such an insane amount of companies chase money so quickly with those earlier examples. For a long time there were lots of people just playing and tinkering with the new thing for fun, not immediately trying to get rich (even mobile, I fondly remember having PDAs long before there was an iPhone, tinkering with them and hanging out on XDA developers). If everyone is primarily trying to make money off something right from the get go instead of primarily trying to build something useful, I can see how adoption suffers. Bit of a catch 22.