Huh, my take all along was that web3 terminology was specifically designed to “pretty up” blockchain related things to make it palatable to VCs, by implying that it was going to be the next internet and you need to get on now.
>>bombca+(OP)
This seems spot on to me. It's all just a tower of dumb greed in the end. Web3 is just stupid expensive P2P without a pure disruption model so they just ate it up