Honestly, I dont see crypto currencies being adopted for quite a long time. Its difficult to get people on board with the idea, especially in the United States, but I think Blockchain tech altogether will become more prevalent and user friendly is the next couple years.
I see something like the hardware Wild Beast Coin showed off running the Blocknet, which would allow the computer to handle apps and programs it otherwise couldnt. Maybe even Nexus will supply the actual internet connection.
Its still pretty early to tell.
I agree with your first paragraph.
Regarding your second paragraph ...correct me if wrong, but the starting idea of Blocknet was to be a true decentralised peer-to-peer system, but it seems that whole development is moving solely to peer-to-peer exchange and all they care is to support more altcoins which can then be exchanged on Blocknet ... I don't see that as something revolutionary, or am I seeing this whole thing wrong?
Blocknets first project is the decentralized exchange, but once they get that up and running, they will move on to other projects. It might seem like thats all they're focusing on, but exchanges are a big issue in the current crypto world and Blocknets trying to address it.