Crypto Needs A Clear Use Case To Survive?

When you buy a new appliance, you're aware of the features that make it an upgrade over the appliances that you currently own. The product designers of that piece of technology understood the needs of consumers and designed the product so that it could specifically solve those sets of problems. There's a repetitive narrative that's been circulating in this forum for the past few weeks (probably grown out of FUD) that some crypto projects need a use case to "survive." When have you bought a new appliance and desperately sought for a use for it after the fact? Why are you investing in shit without understanding the value it provides to holders or cryptocurrency as a whole? If you want to buy into a project simply because the hype will make you money, just recognize that you're ponzi-fying the ecosystem and stop whining about use cases. The original decentralized and immutable p2p use case for crypto isn't enough any more, I guess. Now crypto has to solve cancer to compete against AI investment opportunities and stay relevant.