You have nothing to be sorry about, everyone is entitled to have his opinion.

And I think BTCZ was introduced pretty early in comparison to other BTC forks (even though BTCZ is not a direct BTC fork, it's rather only core fork).
So your statement "colours, metals and now letters" seems to be incorrect.

Only time will tell if BTCZ is a part of "ridiculous phase". However looking at the wonderful community (just join https://bitcoinzcoin.slack.com/ and see for yourself), activity in this thread (over 200 pages now  - wow), great fundamentals - I don't see a reason why this project cannot succeed.

IMO 2018 will be great for BTCZ.