Well until people catch up with the past innovations, all their new innovations are for not since they cant even get the tx fees handled which makes successful layer 2 apps outside of finance impossible.

we are late to the NFT party.

This is just nonsense. The NFT penetration hasnt started. The only thing missed was a bunch of hype related to nothing. What NFTs have any utility and are worth a damn.

new use cases, dapps, partnerships etc

That requires building. Of course, what else is out there that is being used outside of finance. Nothing. How about Voice? Remember when that was going to be the next big social media craze, at least according to the EOS people?