There are a lot of fads I have seen come and go. Titanium, Beryllium, ceramic, milled aluminum, diamond, coaxial, perfectimpulse response, etc. and individually none of these IMHO have been so good as to dominate the market.
However, I do think we have better speakers in large part thanks to better tools. Affordable to free lab quality microphones, measurement software, speaker cabinet and crossover simulators have, with some exceptions, ensured a marketplace of excellent choices.
For the most part the days of speaker crossovers optimized only on the frequency domain are gone. We now expect excellent designs with good frequency AND impedance AND OFF axis responses.