The last paragraph is a much better descriptor of the article's premise than the opening paragraph. It's rarely the technology itself that's tiring but the hype

The last paragraph is a much better descriptor of the article's premise than the opening paragraph. It's rarely the technology itself that's tiring but the hype around it. I'd also add it's people's odd obsession with tying their egos to that hype around technology. Far too often in the tech press there's supposedly independent articles that are just warmed over press releases. So you don't just get hype about technology X but the breathless hyperbole or marketing copy. That's bad enough but then people get tribalistic about that marketing copy. They repeat the "this will change everything" mantras and inject that into any discussion of technology X, or even unrelated discussions of technology Y. It's tiring and frustrating. When it was magazine articles you could put it down and the marketing copy went away. Now it's every other person in a thread bleating out lines from press releases, often not even realizing they're doing so.