> It's interesting because I've come to the opposite conclusion from very similar experiences. I think the regulatory and legal enforcement haze allows the infinite scams to multiply but I found it refreshing/surprising to find there is a serious and useful core technology that all the scams are imitating in style (but not substance)

Well, why wouldn't there be? Cryptocurrency didn't start out the way it's being used now, and evangelists and nerds have been hard at work for over a decade in furthering the technology.

I can understand your perspective too, however, while we obviously appreciate and care for the underlying technology, almost no one else will. Most people have problems operating Metamask already, so there's no possible reality in which I can see cryptocurrency succeeding because of some awesome underlying technology that almost no one really understands. If cryptocurrency ever succeeds, it's because regulation has cracked down extremely hard, a lot of people are in jail, a lot of time has passed, the sentiment has recovered and real utility is commonplace.

The point at which APY rates for farming/staking are equal or almost equal to traditional treasury basis points, and the decision between investing in stocks or crypto is taken on the basis of fundamentals and utility, will be the time cryptocurrency has grown up and put on big boy pants.