I'd agree with you if there wasn't a degree of substance beneath these things and I suspect that's where we fundamentally disagree.
The concept of PoL is one that I believe in a lot, in saying that an L1s main export (block rewards) should be used to power its apps, not just incentivize stagnant capital to stake. And there's a host of novel applications building across DeFi and other sectors on Berachain, which I try to highlight frequently (
@Exponents_Fi, @Hyperplex_xyz,
@Ositofinance, are among some of the cooler net new DeFi things).
Berabaddies is a community initiative started by one of the first people in our discord 3 years ago, and they've got a group of ~1k women in crypto and have helped get hundreds of them to start exploring an on-chain eco / Berachain, with 25% of their members working at leading crypto protocols. People love to hate on them with very little understanding of what they do / are.
The rest of this seems to be a soft attack on branding; if people ended up knowing us for our parties...sorry we threw good parties, or made jokes as eng timelines got delayed, which is one of the things I wish we could've improved.
I think you may have misunderstood the intention of my post. I think mindshare maxxing is somewhat inevitable unfortunately, but I think the space will mature around fundamentals.
My larger concern is converging so hard to lottery tickets that we lose a spirit of experimentation that could ultimately lead to more interesting outcomes.