This is the worst use case since 2018, it only lasted for a year and many already knew it's never going to work, every projects that have deflationary feature looks like a pump and dump project because they don't have any other utilities onboard than just deflation which is weird, in the end they slowly faded away
Deflationary tokens and automatic staking are become a hype few months ago, but for now, it already gone, just few meme tokens with deflationary and auto staking are survive and another already gone. And I agree with you, deflationary aren't not special offer, but this is just a common features that not making investors interested anymore. If there a newbie are thinking if deflationary features are important, maybe they are already on trap of hype in the past but just recently know about it.
if you see behavior of deflationary tokens in current bull run, you wont be saying that. every new idea need some time for recognition and if you are not a scam and a good team is behind the project then you are deemed to success, no matter which industry you are in.