The current state of web3 reminds me of people building new game engines well before any reasonable game could be built on the platform. This happened a lot in the 90's/2000's in the Interactive Fiction community. Smart people would find IF, play a bunch of games, build a game or two, then decide the existing platforms "didn't fit their style or the kinds of features they wanted" and start discussing how _they_ would do it differently.

None of those platforms ever saw the light of day. The few platforms that _did_ see success were the ones that were built quietly, the platform designer also became its first author and created a viable, interesting game in the platform to prove its value.

I think the proponents of web3 need to stop marketing/pushing it and just go build something. If/when you have something clearly viable, then the rest of us will take a more serious look at what you've invented.

And your users/customers can't just be crypto adherents. That's always going to be a limited subset of Internet users. You have to build something _easy to access_ with _clear benefits_.

Until then, it's just more vaporware.