2017 - news will usually pump the price
2018 - only few people buy the news
What confuses me is how is this possible when there are so many updates and things going with waves? Shouldn't the price at least go up a bit?
You are still living in 2017.
I don't think it is overrated. The price may not be performing well as people like you are expecting but the development is still going.
news has never pumped any altcoin to want to start in 2017 or now. the pumpers have always pumped altcoins and they are not magicians so they can't pump any altcoin at any time. the timing has to be good and that altcoin should not already be pumped.
in 2017 the altcoins were pumping and have not yet been pumped so they could get pumps and they did do that. but in 2018 they were already super pumped so nobody could pump them anymore, instead they dumped them which is the next step.