The metaverse doesn't seem quite that bad (Facebook's people seem to have an understanding of the medium they want to operate in), but the basic "we're going to make the user experience worse by replicating the limitations of the real world for the sake of realism" mentality is still there.
Every time I see news about the "Metaverse", I remember the articles Shamus Young (RIP) wrote about ActiveWorlds and the DotCom bubble crash:
https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=35399
The metaverse doesn't seem quite that bad (Facebook's people seem to have an understanding of the medium they want to operate in), but the basic "we're going to make the user experience worse by replicating the limitations of the real world for the sake of realism" mentality is still there.