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.
I think let's just embrace that its always the trend that will attract more users and investors due to its high demand. And in some instances, what makes the trend is sometimes the root of scams because people have never thought it already because they focused much on the profits that they are going to earn. This is mostly what happened if those developers have become profit centered and never look on the long term impact of the project.