been looking at the 17.09 as well as the 37.07 myself but being fairly new to the watch collecting world I can only say there're more in my bucket list to obtain than a Ming unfortunately. Especially now where the preowned price is about 2x the launched price for some of the models. Lovely minimalist design, fairly small size to my liking but I do hope to own one in the near future.
not sure about the hype now since I only follow MWF, there're still a number of them in the preowned market so I'm guessing that the demand isn't as high as before.