I've only really started learning about crypto and I don't really see the point to all these million different exchange tokens.
Most of them just seem to speculative tokens with no actual function as far as I can see

What do you think?
There were a lot of ICOs that were based on exchange because of the success of Binance token, but these projects cannot duplicate the success of Binance they failed miserably in the market, there are still projects based on exchange and they used it as fee or share of the company's shares, unfortunately only Binance and Kucoin coin proved their worth in the market. many of these are weak and speculative coin it's hard to duplicate their success.