Less than two years after much of the media decided that Mark Zuckerberg was a visionary for plunging heaps of cash into the metaverse, many of the same journalists have now decided that the entire concept is laughable. The many metaverse obituaries that are doing the rounds are forgetting to ask – has the technology even come to fruition yet? Can the metaverse die without ever having fully lived? Having been skeptical of the metaverse since its entry into public discourse around 18 months ago, Faultline feels that the current mudslinging is both premature and hypocritical. Meta’s preposterously ostentatious entrance into the market (costing $36 billion so far) has aged even worse than it looked at the time, but the…