I certainly am disappointed. I'm not entirely sure why I expected more from reddit, I mean, comeon, it's not twitter! ;-) My guess is that it's a mixture of illiteracy (innumeracy?) and invested interest.

The quality of discourse on /r/iota takes the cake though: https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/80p3lg/cryptographers... The comments keep going... boy, those iota people really hate zcash!

Also, I completely agree with your fascination and skepticism, but have nothing to add but that agreement.