Arguably in app purchases have already corrupted a lot of the game space into slot machines.

Tokens take that a step further and make it worse.

Incentives create the world. On one side you have Apple Arcade trying to align incentives for a better global outcome/end state. On the other you have in-app purchases, loot boxes, and NFTs - trying to maximize profit for the house.

again you cant take the human minds tendency to attach value to things in their life and to operate in hierarchies. NFTs were inevitable as tokens of value because they function as physical objects. You can say thats a scam but all ypu are saying is that you dont yet attach value to NFTs. Anecdotes are not the way to validate your claim though.

They don’t function as physical objects though, people just pretend they do - that’s the scam part.

That's not the right premise for the discussion.

A stone is a physical object, some stones are worth more than others.

You can call the fact that humans apply value to thing a scam but that would give you a suboptimal understanding of the world.