You obviously haven’t played many VR titles if you think VR offers very little over “2D screen” gaming. Half-life: Alyx came out in 2020 and can be considered the gold standard of all current and future VR games in terms of design and immersion. If you have played it you can tell what the difference is in VR. Some other VR titles even have a mode to remove spider enemies for the arachnophobic because of how immersive these games can be. That should indicate to you how real VR can feel to players and the value of VR.

VR users on steam are very prolific and spend a ton of money on their hardware to get optimal experiences 4090s and VR trackers are expensive. People who are into VR are VERY into it. But as they compose a very small sliver of the gaming world’s cash, they are not generally targeted by developers. Most new VR games come from small developers and suffer from miniscule budgets vs other non-VR AAA games that can gross tens of millions of units sold and hundreds of millions in sales. So in the end most games can’t compare to Alyx and its level of immersive-ness. If you look at steam user counts, out of all their users, VR users are only a very small percentage and therefore not targeted by the large game developers. Until this changes, VR will have very large hurdles to overcome if no one is making amazing experiences or ‘Killer apps’ for VR.

You are incorrect. It is not Augmented reality.
The now defunct Daqri did AR. The original Meta, not facebooks meta, was AR. Lenovo’s Thinkreality A6 was AR.
When you use cameras to capture the real world and feed that image into an HMD you have MIXED reality with data.
The reduced FOV, the reduced real world resolution, and the slight delay are just some of the drawbacks of MR over AR.

It is absolutely augmented reality. It just lacks the depth and breadth that decades of AR based science fiction has given us for potential use cases because it’s still very early technology in this field.

You’ve never played a flight simulator or racing simulator on a legit 6 DOF notion platform in VR I guess. There are compelling use cases, just not for the average consumer.

Also the fugly google doodle avatars that it forced you to create for yourself. Completely disqualifying. Nobody wants to go through such humiliation and then have some kind of virtual office meeting as their hideous virtual clones. The thought of it is enough to make you retch. These people are so completely removed from normal humanity to think there was demand for such a thing