I think the market is oversaturated at the moment. People don't need these thousands of projects.
I agree that there are too many projects in the market but some people think that only bitcoin is going to remain and to me that is not correct we need several projects so even the bitcoin developers feel the pressure to improve bitcoin and they do it as fast as they can, because if only bitcoin remains the developers are not going to be in any kind of hurry to implement any improvement.