I think the genre will weather some long overdue "flattery" just fine considering rpgs, adventures, and so on have managed just fine with their own hybrid dalliances---if anything, the hybrids strengthen the "classics" as they actually do far more, and far more loudly, to raise the core issues into the limelight and thereby the classics outright even if in some oft needless defenses thereof. Most of the Berlin's darlings had/are/still etc gone stagnant and abandoned---relegated to the reliquary instead of their true forms as living works of finely woven entropy. Had history played out in a more correct fashion, this little phase would've already come and gone well over a decade past---but now beats never by far. Doubtlessly, some are reckoning it from a crass marketing perspective without knowing the Why behind it all, but ultimately it is the spirit of the thing that is most important---that plucking from the future and across disciplines from the realms of pen & paper to the monitor that was one of the great incomplete advances from mostly the 80's. The weakest of the lot won't be able to sustain themselves on trendy latching on alone, as per usual, and the rest are certainly in good standing for a place at the grand table---purity isn't the driving force of Roguelikes and, by the very nature same as other fundamentalist notions, can't be....spirit enmeshed with ambition is.
ADOM is a situation unto itself, which I can understand easier by taking a step back and viewing it from beyond more than just financial incentive/passion dynamic---a whole lotta (rough) life has happened to the man and his spiffy team since The Resurrection, but they are still trudging onward to make good on things as best they can given the circumstances. If finance was the ruling, driving force...especially in the lands of Crowdfunding being what they are...they'd have had a much easier time on themselves to "not" and just fade away. As such, that means something in my estimation, and the significance is not lost on me versus getting blinded by the mundane business equations.