If it quacks like a duck, what could it be?
This means nothing to me. I've wrote several posts about the Halo Effect and how people keep projecting their past experiences falsely onto the blockchain.
The most notable thing is the Dot Com bubble. Everyone is going to be damn surprised when 90% of the open source projects in the space don't fall off the face of the Earth.
Just because the Halo Effect exists doesn't mean that's all that exists. Clearly some of our experience is valid and appropriate on the blockchain, even if some people misapply some of their experiences sometimes.
If something resembles things we have experience with, it is the only appropriate response to compare it to what we do have experience with. Pattern recognition is really all we have.