Just as you have just a finite set of notes on a piano, you can create infinite music.
And even if IT has a finite set of regular tools like SQL databases, programming languages and protocols, it's the thing you create with that, what counts.
Blockchain is a tool that does nothing better than existing tools.
Blockchain is a solution to a problem nobody has.
And yes, I now about transferwise, paypal, swift, etc. And using crypto is faster and cheaper.
Bitcoin: ~$25
Ethereum (and all tokens): ~$17
For comparison, to burn that much in fees on Paypal (2.5% + 30c), I'd need to send around 10K.
Crypto is currently pointless for anything other than big transactions, and the unpredictability of the transaction fees, let alone the coin's value, is a big problem.
I will never understand this. The vast majority of problems have more than one solution, most of the time is just about solving something in a (much) better way.
If the bar for something to exist is "solve a problem that can't be solved with existing tools" then 99% of startups wouldn't exist.