Coins with PoW that waste a ton of electricity sure are the future right? Nothing gets investors excited like a coin that requires ever expanding resources in order to secure the network.
Money must be expensive to create. That's what gives it value.
A rock that came from a planet a thousand light years away is more valuable than a child's macaroni art.
A coin that was forged through millions of computers all competing using a network measured in zettahashes (PoW) is more valuable than a coin given out to someone for sitting on a large stack of already minted coins (PoS).
You may not understand money as well as you think. It's not a bug that Bitcoin or Monero is so hard to create - it's a feature.