I constantly wonder whether there is something I am missing about Web3. Am just too old and perhaps out of touch to understand the hype? Sometime between 2015-2

I constantly wonder whether there is something I am missing about Web3. Am just too old and perhaps out of touch to understand the hype? Sometime between 2015-2019 I probably made upwards of 20.000+ manual trades with smart contracts, and even build my own dapps. I felt like a ETH/Decentralization and Web3 apostle. But everything just felt so useless to me in the end (except the easy money I was making). Nowadays, web3 feels even more useless, and even more scammy. The "use-cases" and "scarity" to me sound like some exotic products that are packaged for the gullible to waste their money in a unregulated, hyper gambling echo chamber of the internet. But of course, perhaps I am still missing the point.