Am I the only one that still has no idea what the Metaverse is actually meant to be?

So what on earth is it?

Is it just the idea that we'll all be playing MMORPGs all day with VR? Rather then chatting with someone on zoom I'll spend half an hour wiring up my VR kit so I can chat to their avatar in a pretend conference room? And then we'll go to a pretend coffee bar where we'll pretend to drink coffee that we'll buy with crypto?

Is it just the idea of a persistent online virtual world? But which world? Presumably anyone can make their own metaverse? Does Eve Online count as the metaverse? Habbo Hotel? Or does it have to have VR?

Isn't the internet just the metaverse? Or does it always require some sort of game like VR interface to count?

And what role does Blockchain play in the metaverse? Is it intended to support the persistence and the idea of one true metaverse? But whose Blockchain? Surely anyone can create their own Blockchain for their own metaverse?

Why are people buying virtual land in the metaverse? What utility does it have? And given it's just a simulation, the land itself is presumably infinite? So why pay for it?

Am I just an old grumpy man?