Because VCs have heavily invested over the last few years in blockchain companies and cryptocurrencies in general, they need to keep pumping this bubble, so NFT

Because VCs have heavily invested over the last few years in blockchain companies and cryptocurrencies in general, they need to keep pumping this bubble, so NFTs, web3 etc became necessary to invent. Web3 is just the latest excuse to keep the game of musical chairs going and preserve the chimera of use-value for cryptocurrencies since very few people want to use them to actually transact.