People always afraid to face something new. It is normal I think. And Im sure there will be several waves of growing and falling interest to crypto. Those who are smarter, will stay and wait for success.
The increase in the popularity of cryptocurrency will be necessary when the market growth is resumed and prices go up, because it is easiest to make money on the price increase, it is enough to buy coins and wait for the price to increase. Naturally, now, when prices fall, people decide to get out of crypto.