Developers should stop taking investors as fools, you cooked your project up to your taste and everything seem fine enough but because you are too greedy and can't take your eye off DeFi success you decide to switch your project to DeFi. Seriously are investors stupid enough to go along with your obvious trick? To all developers who are doing this, it's a complete slap to your faces, you guys should be ashamed of yourselves.
Developers aren't the only one involved in the project and usually when they go Defi its the decision from their angel investors and other team members. DeFi is the new thing in crypto world and old alts don't want to be left behind and forgotten so they have to follow the market and technology trend. Choose wisely and if any project is jumping on DeFi just for the success then may be you should adjust your portfolio to something that's more trustworthy.