P.S. btw I have been mining for longer than 3 years now, I have seen everything in this business, so maybe my opinion has some weight.
(I was not joking when I sad I was mining longer than some people have been developing)
I feel your pain. I started mining BTC in 2009. The crypto landscape is pretty ugly right now IMHO. Way too many coins and scammers. Can UTC survive what's going on? I hope so but I don't know if the current direction is the correct course of action. It will be interesting to see what happens when the 400+MH/s scrypt asics hit the scene. They will be massive game changers but only for the people with deep pockets I'm afraid. Look at what's happening to LTC. Difficulty continues to go up, price continues to go down. Only megahashers make money there now to get ROI. I think that's what we have to look forward to for the foreseeable future. JMHO