I have an Occulus Quest 3 headset, and the hardware is great and there are some decent games. But the "metaverse" (Horizon Worlds) is just boring. Why the fuck would I want to go into static hubs and play boring minigames? They're repeating exactly the same mistakes that made Playstation Home on the PS3 suck balls - slow loads with boring content waiting at the other end.
I have the same thoughts now about it as I did for Home - they should have just bundled a proper MMO into the headset with quests, zones, clans etc. Let people make avatars which are orcs, elves, fairies etc. Let them go into a game which has objectives and a purpose and start engaging with it. Perhaps if they did that they'd have a success instead of a dead albatross hanging round their necks.