I agree with your sentiment totally, most NFT games these days are blatant cash grabs that promise the world, but have little to no fun - people only play the games because of the token value.

I've only managed to find one game (Gods Unchained) that actually had me playing for way more than what was required for obtaining the max P2E rewards since I'm a sucker for card games. For other genres to achieve the same amount of engagement, I think it might be a lot tougher, although with so many groups starting their own NFT games hopefully one or two of them will rise to the top.