In the future maybe 2025 the next big thing in crypto won't be what we've make lots of money from like the metaverse, Play2earn NFTS, they will be around but won't be the main focus, it might be web3.0 and other that's not even been acknowledged yet, just saying this because some people are already planning to pack many meme coins and other for the future your expectations might not come true
The crypto space has always been around hype. There have always been certain topics that where the total hype for a little then once the first projects of this kind appeared and turned out to be extremely successful both in terms of adoption of the project but also of course in terms of profit for the early investors, then of course a lot of copycats appear that are not really trying to make a great product but are just trying to get a piece of the hype-cake with as little effort as possible. This is of course also true for the metaverse. There are a few projects out there though where i am sure that they are still around in a few years too. If they are still in the main focus of the big public i don't know.