Sure, hype isn't necessarily based on marketing. That's why there's the word "often" in my previous post. I think in the case of OpenSSL, there was a huge need

Sure, hype isn't necessarily based on marketing. That's why there's the word "often" in my previous post. I think in the case of OpenSSL, there was a huge need for what OpenSSL was doing which justified a lot of people taking a calculated risk to use it. I'll concede in that case that the risk may have actually even been justified. That same logic doesn't apply to blahblah.io's "revolutionary" 0.x.y packages on npm or pip, or the bleeding-edge SaaS of the week.