I agree the effort and approach being made by meta is laughable, really exposing how inexperienced they are at virtual world type technology. Zuck isn't the first to maybe think with enough money, any problem can be cracked.
Some very experienced folk came to the conclusion a long time ago that a successful metaverse can't be done at profit, just as we are seeing the real world can't be done at profit either.
So we probably won't see anyone experienced working to help Zuck, since of course Zuck is absolutely profit driven, he couldn't be any other way.
Who knows which will come first, the non profit world, or the non profit metaverse?