[aaronbrethorst]

but their product management clearly got in the way

I'm pretty sure the buck stops with Mark Zuckerberg.

[mosura]

Zuckerberg wants a cyberpunk future, not some 3D immersive HR department on your face.

[pjc50]

I think to him those are the same thing.

If he wanted an imaginative environment he'd be in VRChat.

[mosura]

VRChat is what you would point at to justify the creation of Horizon Worlds, while saying “it is just too creepy for normies”.

Neither of those extremes are tolerable.