Maybe I'm more set in my ways now, but I feel like distro hopping is largely a thing of the past. There used to be a ton of small distros with their own communities but they've pretty much disappeared. I don't know if it's the decline of the web forums as they used to be (which killed the small communities), or if people realized these were mostly just Debian/Fedora derivatives with a cool Openbox theme and some preinstalled packages, or if everyone just migrated to Arch.
To me, Crunchbang was the last of the fun distros.
There used to be all kinds of distros runnable in tiny systems, localized to your wishes, optimized for speed, and with specialized compatibility.
But then tiny systems disappeared, the mainstream distros got all of those localization options, the optimizations got generic enough for everybody to adopt, and the all the crappy enumerable compatibility hardware converged on Red Hat. That's why the distro diversity disappeared. Nowadays we can get one distro to cover all use cases.
To me, Crunchbang was the last of the fun distros.