referencing a scammy project like ETH in a project that the author believes is not a scam doesn't exactly speak for whatever it is they're peddling. Every time I read jargon like Web3 and dapp I am a little sick in my mouth because I know there are people who don't pay so much attention and get easily sucked into the whole nonsense.

You think a distributed virtual machine that executes code is scammy? Maybe it can be used for scams by people who are scammers. So is email scammy too? Are telephones scammy? I believe they are all technology and can be used for whatever people want to do with them.

instead of your comment it would have been more convincing if you pointed me to the many success cases which I have missed where cryptocurrencies and blockchains have lead to anything other than a scam.

Because anything I come across in that domain, I can smell the stink from miles away!