when i first joined amber's vc team, i used to overly care about the "tech". i would get so involved in it, akin to someone caring about rare traits on a nft or something. i think any other vc analyst would agree if they ever bull posted the "modular chain thesis".
i had the opportunity to watch a lot of projects launch. their pre-tge plans, and how it played out post-tge. most project's token performance did not live up to expectations. its not that the tech was bad, it was that the token was set up to fail due to predatory token allocations. however if you purely optimized for the tech and not the token dynamics, you lost!
right now to me, only 2 things matter. proof of work coins and memecoins. both can truly be fair, with no predatory supply overhang. however, both can also be unfair. trenchers know this when a coin is bundled. i think the same is true for proof of work, you always need to ask yourself is this game im playing fair?
when i see a project that does it "right", or atleast, what i would do myself if i launched a coin, i get interested.