Is the IPFS Project a Failure?

I never understand why people ask questions like this. Just a raw, but likely inflammatory, question with no additional exposition explaining what it is they really want to know. In reality, without defining the parameters of what would constitute "success" or "failure" there is no real answer to this question, except a bunch of people's opinions.

So 30 or 40 people say "yes", 30 or 40 more say "no" and what new, actionable insight does anybody gain from this?

Blockchain tech and ethereum is a failed project, IPFS is an unfortunate casualty of collateral damage.

Juan Benet and the team at Protocol labs is the definition of top talent, it's too bad their work had to be stymied by an industry that basically cannibalized itself at the hands of idiot entrepreneurs (I'm looking at YOU Jeremy Gardner of Augur...)

It worked the last time I checked. Why would it be considered a failure?