Every mention gets a bit more conversation.
Yeah, we do have a ways to go before mainstream - a lot of stuff needs to happen first.
Main thing I hear as an objection is that people can't readily buy things with their crypto (I think BTC transactions are still too slow and expensive for BTC to be the solution right now). This is a fixable problem.
Heck, they are all fixable problems :)
But we are earlier than early adopters - still!