But I feel like everybody is more defensive and focuses about "hard money" instead of enthusiastic and how Lightning could revolutionize the economy.
I don't know what you are talking about.
I am as eager as ever before to learn about LN. Times like these (as others already mentioned) are the best time to build stuff since now, all the shitcoiners ("get rich in fiat terms") are gone and they'll be surprised when we're back at 60k or 100k.