"The Metaverse" is still fundamentally the same as other content/experience the same way 3D movies are fundamentally the same as 2D movies.

Being able to see a projection of someone in chair next to you does not really deepen or hasten the sharing of ideas in any drastic way compares to pre-internet vs post-internet communication.

If I had to guess, my suspicion is that direct brain-to-brain communication is the next epoch-definiting development.