The question I have for your observation (which I think is correct btw) is:

Do you think it's inherent to the technology that the use cases are not useful or is it our lack of imagination so far that we haven't come up with something useful yet?

Solutions in search for a problem just don’t tend to be very good solutions after all.

Maybe the answer isn’t that we’re too dumb/shallow/unimaginative to put it to use, but that the metaverse and web3 are just things that turned out to not work in the end?