Now, the discussion of the ethereum on the forum basically boils down to price forecasting, although if you look at the news feed, you can see that the development team constantly gives out what new ideas or presents small tools for integrating the broadcast into an increasing number of areas. Therefore, about the prospects of the ether, you can be calm, since its mass use will not allow the platform to become unnecessary.
Well people talk about prices because there ios no much things to talk about other than that,while we are waiting for casper and sharding impleentatin, and who knows when is that going to happen.For Ethereum sake,i hope it happens next year,2019.