I have ideas on what I think drives this and investors haven’t helped, tbh.

What’s interesting is that the same maxi mentality we were accused of having in Bitcoin, Ethereum people have now.

Old ideas are not bad ideas. Only bad ideas are bad ideas.

Bitcoin maxis were right with respect to altcoins, as in the many bitcoind forks that proliferated 2011-2015 or so. "This was the original invention" is strong legitimacy; can only be beaten by something that's a step function better, not by copies. Haven't seen that yet wrt eth.