What happens now with "Metaverse" is the same thing that happened before with "play-2-earn-games" or "privacy-coins" or "Defi-projects" and so on because the crypto market is still very based around hyped which is not a good thing in my opinion but it is what it is. There is always one or two projects that come up with a new idea and if this idea is good those projects will make the early investors rich. Then other projects see that and try to copy this approach, the first few of those copycats are still successful and then the hype is officially there. Then a lot of people want to profit from that hype by creating projects that are only consisting of a copied idea and nothing more and then the hype begings to go down again and we have 100's of those projects and only a handful of them will still be there in a few years.
And together with that people don't trust projects with a closed source code because they believe it's a scam. But such developers simply want to keep their project safe. I know what I'm speaking about as I use
Utopia p2p ecosystem which has a closed source and all the complaints around it is dedicated to that fact. It continues for 4 years already. How to deal with that?