They told me to evaluate consumer-first infrastructure by TPS, throughput as virtue, scaling as morality and I nodded along because arguing with benchmarks is exhausting, because sometimes you let the wrong metric win just to end the meeting.
But Virtua Metaverse doesn't move in discrete actions.
It moves in attention, in immersive interaction continuity, in the dangerous faith that Vanar's world won't blink when you're inside it.
That's engagement continuity: not whether the chain handles volume, but whether it respects presence fidelity, the production-grade resilience required when users aren't clicking but dwelling, when real-world adoption means sustaining long engagement under patterns that look nothing like clean pitch deck graphs.
Live product telemetry told a different story.
I watched a user freeze mid-gesture, their avatar hanging in dead space, the spell broken by Layer 1 reliability that was theoretically sufficient but practically lonely.
But that's not the point.
Or it is.
I'm not sure anymore.
I still don't know if I want infrastructure I can feel.
I don't know if feel is what I asked for.