It's so disappointing to see newbies' interests are attracted more to DEFI and other shitcoins, than real experiments on decentralized protocols, governance, and development.
Newcomers to cryptocurrency are attracted primarily by the hype, the opportunity to make money quickly.
Few people are interested in real technologies.
We see this on the example of many altcoins, whose price is steadily going down with active development, new solutions and technologies.
Decred has a very low profitability for pos-mining, only about 5.6% per year.
And at the same time the price goes down, which makes it extremely unattractive for investment.
As a result, we have what we have.