I disagree completely lol
It wasn’t until recently that a lot of the infra supports the rapid movement of assets of all kinds and to get there took a lot of the experimentation that the op is downplaying.
Secondly, everyone is so focused on what makes “money” so the direction of the space can’t be dictated by the lowest denominated consumer. The bloodlust to win capital has tilted toward building bad apps, bad patterns, bad ideas, and people willing to defraud others for a piece of a diminishing pie.
This ain’t saying that the incessant push for creator coins and other things the op mentioned were good—I don’t believe they were either but we can wag the finger “bad dog” without throwing out the collar and the dog bowl.
I think my point is that many things can be true at once. Some ideas were really bad, we need to build more things that are successful, and we should listen to real feedback. And…what we did collectively led us here. We needed to get here.