It seems like there is never any shortage of fud when it comes to any asset. Some times it's just people spilling out a bunch of info they heard from someone else as unproven rumors and other times it can be backed.I too fell for this a little bit over the last year with Ethereum as the price continued to tank we could look at things like how much the chain was being used, are there still high fees, inflation, development and so forth and yes all of those things were trending a bit downwards.