Regular, non crypto enthousiast don't give a crap about real mining. It's a way to introduce crypto to the average Joe, and give them a sense of participation without having to read through a 100 page book how crypto and blockchain works. They distribute a little bit of crypto to every person interested in crypto, but has 0 knowledge.

And the more I read on crypto, the more I realize that people simply don't want to put in the effort to learn. I've seen countless of facebook posts on bitcoin (let alone altcoins) where the topcomments are always something like "a million articles on bitcoin and I still don't know wtf bitcoin is or does" followed by 1000+ likes of people who also have no clue. That tells me that people need a more simple way to get introduced to cryptocurrency before they're willing to put in their own effort, or you'd think that once they hear about it they'll start researching it. Tell any random person what crypto is, how to obtain it, or how it works and they'll likely get lost as soon as you mention the word blockchain, then explain mining etc. They simply don't want to know all that. They WANT it to get airdropped into their phones, that's the way to get crypto by simply installing an app and pressing the "mine" button combine that with being able to perhaps spend that "mined" ETN on some android game to purchase stuff, or even something like a for example Steam purchase and people will see the value of it, and people will be hooked. It doesn't get any more simple than that.