I've heard this called a "dancing bear" before. It's interesting because it's a bear dancing, not because the dancing is any good.
These conversations get frustrating since one group is saying the dancing is bad, a second group is saying it's good (for a bear), and a third group is saying we are a few years from a bear-only dancing industry.
The hype train the caught me was VR. I'm reminded of the Microsoft Hololens. It was an incredible feat of engineering. At the same time, it was--at times, literally--a painful experience.
There was a vision of the Hololens being a general purpose compute device that enabled something more like the power of a desktop without being tethered to a sitting position at a desk. You could see it if you squinted hard (incidentally, the device caused a lot of eye strain). But even at the height of the VR hype cycle, I didn't know anyone pushing the Hololens on anyone. Nobody was telling the world they were going to be using Hololenses v1 or v2 as their only computer "or get left behind."
These conversations get frustrating since one group is saying the dancing is bad, a second group is saying it's good (for a bear), and a third group is saying we are a few years from a bear-only dancing industry.