Perhaps the quality of arguments is an indicator here. At this point in time I am tired of explaining the basics to new, naive newcomers who somehow think that distributed chains of hashes are some kind of new, breakthrough science. I am tired in the same way as explaining to people that statistically they should vaccinate - the scientific base is already established but it looks like reasonable arguments no longer work. There’s opportunity cost and I feel like a lot of web3 efforts to reinvent the wheel could be better spent on research into fighting cancer or genetic diseases.