Does anybody feel the crypto-scene is going in the wrong direction?

I've watched the crypto industry grow and develop for over the past ten years and honestly, in my opinion, it's in a really sad state.

Bitcoin in particular was built with such elegant simplicity that it really was made for everyone, especially the unbanked. Nowadays, outside of the shilling, shitcoins, and shams, it feels like it is mostly these egghead know-it-alls pretending they are the true messiahs of crypto, but the truth is, it is all just marketing, soul-less marketing.

What are your opinions on the whole thing, are you guys bitcoin maximalists or do you think that the efforts for better blockchain (outside the real developments like the EVM and PoS) are worth anything other than hype?

I'd really like to know because sometimes I feel like I am going nuts over here.