I think its a foul play if a project team that has a utility like privacy or swap tries to go metaverse and play2earn all of a sudden, why are developers of today like this? I just believe that they have accepted their failure and trying to look into what's currently trending but what they fail to see is that some projects have maintained their single use cases for years until their time comes around and things start going well, before play 2 earn games became a big thing today few projects have been around for quick some time.
Developers a good majority will just copy ideas as they lack the innovation to deploy their own ideas, but some will copy the idea and then improve and change the style of the idea to fit their project.
But copying ideas isn't always too bad, because the next developer could expand the idea into an improvement with new ideas and logical steps that other communities could be looking for.