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Yeah, we tried that with Second Life.

Most successful products were already tried in the past. Conditions change, and execution is more important than the idea itself.

Unfortunately there were no obvious errors in the execution of SL.

Could swing off in another direction, although everyone who wants a virtual online world always aims directly toward SL.

A virtual online world seems to have no useful purpose other than acting as "moth to flame"

Maybe not obvious errors, but we have learned things since SL. Minecraft hit a sweet spot of getting ordinary people to actually build stuff, it that aspect Minecraft is a better preview of the metaverse.

In retrospect the learning curve for SL's content creation was too hard or intimidating. (and Minecraft has obvious limitations.)

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