[ljak]

Most successful products were already tried in the past. Conditions change, and execution is more important than the idea itself.

[VLM]

Unfortunately there were no obvious errors in the execution of SL.

Could swing off in another direction, although everyone who wants a virtual online world always aims directly toward SL.

A virtual online world seems to have no useful purpose other than acting as "moth to flame"

[indrax]

Maybe not obvious errors, but we have learned things since SL. Minecraft hit a sweet spot of getting ordinary people to actually build stuff, it that aspect Minecraft is a better preview of the metaverse.

In retrospect the learning curve for SL's content creation was too hard or intimidating. (and Minecraft has obvious limitations.)