From what I can see there's little value in the Metaverse concept because of the fact it is a rehash of Second Life but with the scale and funding of Meta (form

From what I can see there's little value in the Metaverse concept because of the fact it is a rehash of Second Life but with the scale and funding of Meta (formally Facebook). Absent the cash flow and infrastructure no one would really care beyond VR enthusiasts. The problem with the whole metaverse concept is that the implementation runs counter to the actual infrastructure underlying it. The Internet works so well because it's very permissive/open with data transfer. It's funny how that we now try to wrangle that back in when we should be making the other layers of the network (session, application, and presentation) as permissive as the lower level transport and link layers. But it seems we want to reinvent the centralized systems of old like mainframes and computer information services but without the old trappings as if people aren't fully aware of how that all worked out (badly for consumers).