The metaverse is exciting. (opens in a new tab)it’s puzzling (opens in a new tab), but mostly, it’s kind of a mess. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was brutally dragged out in August due to the horrific meta-selfie of him with dead eyes. (opens in a new tab); the thrashing resumed earlier this month when Zuck announced that Meta avatars would have legs. (opens in a new tab). And it’s not just the online mob that doesn’t care about the current state of affairs. Speaking at today’s WSJ Tech Live 2022 conference, Xbox boss Phil Spencer called the metaverse “a poorly constructed video game.”

“If I think about video games, for years we’ve been bringing people together in 3D spaces to save the world from invading aliens or conquer the castle,” Spencer said. “Building a metaverse that looks like a…