From my perspective and I am also relatively new to issue, the most disappointing news was that there exist limit on how many transaction could be processed by network per time, keep this in mind. Other than that crypto are great.
In my pursue for understanding the issue I found this pic very useful
bitpop since you are early adopter tell me, what was time when in your perception bitcoins were relatively the cheapest. I mean 4 years ago they could be easily perceived as much expensive as they are today, am I correct?