looking cute :) The main advancement what I see from the cryptokitties era is that there are real game like elements like strategic fighting nowadays started to appear in the new collectible games!
However - with the gas prices shooting up and all transactions costing money - I think this is still a big barrier for anything like this to become really popular. We should start to think about moving away from ETH in these cases to a cheaper or free chain (like STEEM) which could be used without payment at least for starting out to involve new players maybe even the ones without any knowledge of crypto!