I agree that purely in the dApp sense, NFTs never fully took off. The blockchain tech made it theoretically distributed, but the interest in NFTs died off way before that mattered, so we only ever saw effectively centralized versions of it.
I personally had no interest in seeing the decentralized one either, but there are people who collect digital things for some reason. In that case would've needed convergence on one JSON format at least for the 99% use case of still images, and agreement to put the heavy assets on IPFS instead of HTTP (it was a mix). Maybe axe some of the confusing features like editions.
I agree that purely in the dApp sense, NFTs never fully took off. The blockchain tech made it theoretically distributed, but the interest in NFTs died off way before that mattered, so we only ever saw effectively centralized versions of it.
I personally had no interest in seeing the decentralized one either, but there are people who collect digital things for some reason. In that case would've needed convergence on one JSON format at least for the 99% use case of still images, and agreement to put the heavy assets on IPFS instead of HTTP (it was a mix). Maybe axe some of the confusing features like editions.