Even with all the bullshit that the whole IT sector will have to go through due to #Meltdown and #Spectre I still find it... hopeful, I guess would be the word.
The hopeful part is: it seems possible to find such bugs.
We seem to need to go deeper and deeper, lower and lower to find the really huge gaping security holes. That means that there is *some* progress. And so there is *some* hope.
I like to also think that each one of these actually removes something from NSA's and APT's arsenals.