I kind off wonder why we keep having some repetitions of already existing project, and the developers keep saying "oooh the existing project is not scalable" for example, some projects have been born because of low transaction per seconds of the ethereum network(TPS), which of course does cause serious problem for the overall network ecosystem. This ethereum developers have moved to try and arrest by the upgrade called "Constantinople".
The world have many areas that need the help of blockchain, for example the recently concluded election in Nigeria was filled with violence, killing, rigging and snatching of ballot papers, together with mass voters apartheid in subsequent election. All these would have just been handled with the aid of blockchain voting, without fear of been hacked or hijacked. The sighted example and many more is just one area that really defines adoption. It's possible to create coin and during the election period, the government can be made to pay for the blockchain services by buying the ecosystem token, which is not a must.
The bottom-line is that: Instead of having many failed projects in this space, developers should come forth with strong and life application project and not to keep imitating other projects like we currently have a spray of exchanges with their tokens, the immediate gain of quick money should be kept aside and developers should try and bring up a feasible challenging problem, to solve many human yearnings.
You are right about this, project developers really need to start thinking outside the box and come up with solutions to problem that is yet to be solved, majority of these developers are just doing copy and paste and building on projects that is already existing in the name of making it better, what assurance do they have that they can really do it better than the initiators.
This is exactly what is happening with the IEO now, someone came up with the idea already and instead of them to look for other solution t this ICO scam, and they are still building on what Binance has already solved but not enough to completely take scam projects off the market.