I get your concern about the current-state. The "dev/money" ratio needs adjustment. Market cap/ICO/yet-another-cryptocurrency is not what excites me.
I am working on a simple premise: The DAO (perpetually running, globally accessible, democratic kickstarter) would have been a good project to see succeed. It failed not because it was a bad idea, but because we rushed into it without tools like this one. Augur, Aragon, 0x, Golem, Filecoin are other projects that might be worthwhile. Also ZCash (doesn't have smart contracts yet, but you should really look into the work Ariel Gabizon and company are doing.)
You wouldn't want to write an linux kernel code without a compiler, would you? You shouldn't write immutable code without formal verifiers. Agree?