A decade ago, the Ethereum Whitepaper mentioned every usecase that has been successful - everything from stablecoins to prediction markets to name services - and some that haven't

Around that time, BitShares was already live with PoS, free and fast txs, DEXs, NFTs, memecoins, algorithmic stablecoins, user-issued tokens etc. 

7 years ago, the ICO mania experimented with every possible "____ but blockchain" 

4 years ago, we saw our last major wave of application innovation that proved everything discussed a decade ago 

Crypto is a successful, mature industry, anyone who says "crypto is nothing but gambling" is delusional, as are those who say "we're soooo earlyyyy". Acknowledge reality, keep building on things that work, that may work, and abandon everything that has failed for many years (>99.99% crypto projects)

I love it and question abandoning most crypto projects as they would have to be purged, which would devalue and ultimately waste infinite tons of important work and development by nearly everyone here today. To be fair we have to avoid being right so maybe I am wrong in the context of the plain meaning of your statement since I am in near agreement with it. We cultivate the good from the bad, and should have a mile wide pathway for everyone to move forward.