Comment by libraryofbabel

This isn't a particularly useful filter, because it applies to many very successful technologies as well. Early automobiles generated a lot of hype and excitement, but they were not very good (unreliable, loud, and dangerous, and generally still worse than horses). They got steadily better until eventually they hit an inflection point where the skeptics were dug in repeating the same increasingly old complaints, while Henry Ford was building the Model T.