In one survey conducted on StackOverflow respondents were asked how they feel about different emerging technologies. Surprisingly blockchain has lost much popularity
This can be explained as nowadays the most frequent technology is AI after OpenAI has launched and proved the potential of natural language models like ChatGPT.
It will be interesting to see how the people's sentiment about these technology changes after some time passes and they get used to AI like we were doing with all new tech like planes, smartphones or electric cars.