Why is Meta's plan to create a metaverse getting so much criticism?

It's a desperate pivot to try to avoid blowback from fb's many sins. Aye, ship-maties.

The tech is not there.

It's been tried before with Second Life and was garbage.

There's an unbridgeable gap between the hype, what people will invasively strap to their face that makes them want to throw up, and actual unmetered real-world experiences like a hug.

It could potentially have been interesting if it grew organically - a good but unpolished MVP, core user base, then expansion and growth. Even if it went like this, it would end up like reddit, where too many rules, complaining for the sake of complaining, monetization attempts, and the eternal September effect ruined it, but hopefully that would happen over a long enough arc that something cool existed for a while.

My impression is that the facebook metaverse is jumping right to the end state, with rules and bureaucracy and casual users, with no actual core fan base or community. If it succeeds at all, it will have all the baggage that comes with the exposure of a big platform, without the core aspects that made it successful, because it wasn't forged from market success, it just got made up one day.

What could be wrong with FB rendered in 3D?