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.
Well for me, ICo's is still profitable and still can make money. And I believe that it will be the same in 2018. Even though there are a lot of scammer in ICO , i know we can still found some one that can be trusted especially in terms of investment. Aside from that , ICO are good investment because you can collect funds from it that you can use in building a small project.