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.
I think it's rather a slap on the faces of investors because investors are the ones who vetted cheated here. What you talked about of certain projects hooking up a DeFi piece into their White Paper so as to get maximum patronage even when their projects have nothing genuinely related to DeFi is true. These scumbag developers know it's not that easy understanding the confusing world of cryptos and that not too many people actually do due diligence before investing their money on any project (even those who do, truly may not even actually understand deeply) so they latch unto this to deceive us. Till date, not many even know what drives the DeFi projects. Surprisingly, I have heard this type of confession from tech savvy guys here. So, a below average guy investing in crypto truly needs luck to succeed in picking out viable projects to invest in.