Look at polkadot. You can exchange any arbitrary data across parachains. How is that not the internet but better?
> Polkadot provides unprecedented economic scalability by enabling a common set of validators to secure multiple blockchains.
keyword bingo !
What problems does it solve ? Who's problems does it solve ?
Rate Visa&Co vs ethereum 2.0 based on this.
The whole point is trustlessness
Also, regardless of your feelings of how 'Useful' something is, the crypto market is worth 1.2T. There's millions to be made in DeFI and it's changing the world and propelling previously unknown people into some of the richest people on the planet. Kinda like the original internet, whether you want it or not its coming. Get on board or get out of the way.
It isn't about being technical. It is about explaining why rather than what. If I started talking about cuckoo hashing before explaining that I was providing an associative container, it'd read weird. Similarly, one can fully understand the technical jargon and still come away from that material with "but why".
> Get on board or get out of the way
See, this is the stuff that makes every else get aggravated by cryptocurrency startup culture.