Here's my take on some of your items:
Lightning for Bitcoin will definitely bring a new breath of fresh air, but in the long run BTC will loose the dominant role. It will probably serve well for value storage and with lightning it will be much easier (cheaper) to do transfers but whole crypto world is capable of doing much more. I'm bullish on platform projects. The analogy I share with my friends that are far away from crypto is: BTC is a good Nokia mobile phone, while Ethereum - is iPhone (1st gen), Cardano and EOS (and many others) are next generations of the smartphones. What brought iPhone and Android smartphones to the place where they are today?
It was not the phone-related technology. It was the underlying platforms that let developers write and for people to use apps on these phones.Thanks for the post @cryptobobby!
As for ICOs. It's hot topic at the moment. Today I was trying to get into Dadi ICO. Followed instructions sent by Dadi team, was well prepared (not my first ICO), didn't waste a second since it began. But didn't manage to get in.
So even without regulation the market is not easily accessible at the moment.