I guess if you are looking at this solely from the perspective of using it for gene editing and "curing" disease, I would agree that practical applications migh

I guess if you are looking at this solely from the perspective of using it for gene editing and "curing" disease, I would agree that practical applications might be over-hyped. But it is still a great tool for research. Many model organisms are now opened to transgenesis due to crispr compared to traditional methods. There was a new paper that came out on cas3 recently that showed a cool application in studying minimal genomes (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-020-00980-w https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-020-00980-w). And there are also potential in non-in-vivo usage of crispr for general sequence manipulation. Just because it might not be immediately useful for one over-hyped application, doesn't mean it is dead for all other applications.