I think you are taking the attempt too much seriously. The metaverse is nothing else than one of humanity’s oldest dreams: be God and create a world.
It goes all together with other humanity dreams like fly, eternal youth, read other’s minds, immortality, travel beyond the sky, trespass all frontiers/circumvent the world, telepathy, life without work or pain, etc.
They -have- to try, specially because they successfully achieved other large goals in their previous enterprises and now they feel they have to defeat new boundaries.
It goes all together with other humanity dreams like fly, eternal youth, read other’s minds, immortality, travel beyond the sky, trespass all frontiers/circumvent the world, telepathy, life without work or pain, etc.
They -have- to try, specially because they successfully achieved other large goals in their previous enterprises and now they feel they have to defeat new boundaries.