NFT's are stupid. It's just the NFT idiots trying to find an actual legitimate reason for them to exist by saying it solves every problem, which it doesn't.
Coming back to the main topic, I would suggest looking into Lateral thinking with withered technology. Nobody cares what technology is used for consumer facing products. Nobody cares if its web1 or web25. What people care about is usefulness and purpose.
Cutting-edge tech has always been here, but the break-throughs are mostly coming from cross-pollinating existing tech and remixing something into a better, cheaper, faster version.