I have to agree, with the amount of coins released lately that are ico's just asking for money, or MN coins that hide their asking by holding auctions for MN's that are all copies of each other, to have developers spend their time and effort into this project and yet to ask for any money in return just for you to point a miner or 2 and come along for the ride is quite rare now, they get a rig from me mining.
My opinion echoes this, I feel that the recent explosion of ICOs is why cryptocurrency is in such a bad shape right now, but it's also the natural progression. We knew the day of regulation & government crackdown would come. That's why I'm excited about Dallar & mining with all I've got!