$VRA had all the makings of a breakout: community backing, narrative momentum, hype cycle firing on all cylinders. One detail though — the actual business never showed up. Once serious capital entered and audits kicked in, the whole structure would've crumbled like wet cardboard. That's not a bug, it's the feature: the project stayed deliberately constrained. Building real enterprise infrastructure? Way too risky when your foundation is pure narrative engineering. The numbers tell it: scaled on storytelling, not on fundamentals. Classic illusion farming — layer on enough marketing and community fervor, and nobody asks uncomfortable questions about what's actually generating value underneath.