If the crypto projects were working in collaboration more often, then the whole crypto community would achieve bigger accomplishments all at once!
Synergy would be on the side of cryptos if that were the case, we see these days many projects working on their own each of them having as result longer periods of releasing updates and new features.
It is time to find ideas and bring teams together and work smart rather than hard. With collaboration among team projects like Lightning network, bitcoin smart contracts, ETH scalability, and many features could be ready for the masses sooner and the global economy would have a big positive impact!
That's a hard goal to achieve, too many factors to consider.
Once each project realizes that they can't achieve their goals by themselves then they might consider doing partnerships, we can see that already happening with many of them. Why work hard when teams can join and create synergy?