Cryptoclowns can't use the it's too early excuse anymore.
But they choose to listen to a handful of man children running around promising world peace via a distributed database.
But frankly, your presentation of the question leaves me doubtful you are looking for a meaningful answer here. The reality, as others have pointed out, is that there are lots of platforms in the space offering plenty of compelling services. You personally may not desire those services, but that doesn't change their viability.
KlimaDAO => https://twitter.com/Churchee_/status/1455321571078418433?s=2...
Proof of humanity providing Sybil resistance and ubi => proof of humanity.id
Holly+ trialling collective ownership and finding ways to pay musicians. (Spotify ceo worth $5billion yet the musicians get fractions of pennies). https://mobile.twitter.com/hollyplus_
Radicle, building bridges between git and contracts => https://mobile.twitter.com/abbey_titcomb
Citydao collective ownership of land https://twitter.com/CityDao/status/1455203913985138700?s=20
Supporting scihub! https://twitter.com/TBSocialist/status/1454853772807745539?s...
A documentary about Stuart brand and the whole earth catalog funded &distributed via nfts => https://twitter.com/StewartBrandDoc/status/14374476280281047...
“Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive, that tension doesn’t go away” - s.b. HN often uses the first half of that quote and forgets the rest.