Indeed.

However, i must state that a society can only accept so much change.
So, AC electricity was about it.
Thus, from a metaphysical viewpoint, something would happen to deny the rest.

Still, Tesla created the prototypes of just about everything in our modern world.

He had his students focus on changing the public's mind. To open it to future possibilities.
Neither one never actually made anything. (but there is all kinds of theories about that)
Carr got many advertisements about little devices that would power anything from a hearing aid to a factory.