Looking at some of these responses i would say that OP has his answer .. Dash is pretty much still a thing.
Sure some people still get overly emotional on it (they probly dumped their Dash in the early days because
they thought it was finished) and for some trolls Dash is the most important thing of their life to worry about
so they make Dash hate threads in the altcoin discussion section or bump old ones.

Oh well, we will survive people not liking Dash and we will grow in 2017, both in price and marketcap.

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
- Oprah Winfrey