Hopefully the hype is gone so when can start building the actual Bitcoin economy, the real guts of it - merchant adoption, international remittance, developer infrastructure, allowing transaction types that were previously impossible (e.g. MULTISIG, ANYONECANPAY etc ...).
what are you talking about? price drives a ton of the things you want to happen here, so it should be a part of the conversation. price goes up, ALL of the things you mention get more attention put on them, and more work put into them.