I hope the ICO craze will end soon.
I don't think cryptos should be mixed with startups/kickstarters. Cryptos should be trustless, transparent and decentralized, ICOs are none of those things so using a blockchain platform doesn't really offer any benefits to them, in fact just giving a bad name to cryptos.
I dont think by the same way as you, icos are a good thing after all.
Maybe without them, there would not even be a quarter of all the altcoins that are on the top 20 at the moment.
yes i do believe ico will be more ico coming in 2018. regarding pause of the ico i believe its related to vacation near the end of the year. there will be more company businesses that will adopt blockchain and use ico as the best way go fud money to doing businesses.