The group of people you label “the enthusiasts” are too heterogeneous to be meaningful. For example many developers are enthusiastic about a specific blockchai

The group of people you label “the enthusiasts” are too heterogeneous to be meaningful. For example many developers are enthusiastic about a specific blockchain technology and unenthusiastic about the others. Consider also the difference between someone who researches the formal specification and verification of smart contracts, vs someone who tweets dank memes of babydoge to Elon Musk. They’re completely different people with unaligned interests. If you choose to lump them together and react only to people peddling hype, then what you’ve really done is fooled yourself into aligning with the hype peddler and unaligning yourself with the researcher, by choosing the reverse vector of the peddler.