I think you're getting the FOMO the wrong way around. Im pretty sure an average HN reader understands a lot more about NFT then the average NFT owner.
Bitcoin was technically interesting.
Whatever your stance on all the negatives in the real world, everybody agrees its elegant in theory. It combined problems to create a solution. That's what real innovation looks like.
NFT's as 'investments' are a scam. Claiming Git commit hashes as property is not valuable, innovative, or game-changing. From the bottom to the top of the pyramid its people who are salty they didn't make more money in 'crypto' and are afraid of missing out twice in their lives.
An nft can map to anything. This mapping is up to the implementer.
I can show an nft that represents a role, access to an event, a cross-game asset, as a property title, as a binding contract, rights to use intellectual property etc.
But hey, many have seen their friends have success in crypto while they've remained on the sidelines.. and they don't like it.
They'll defame blockchain & nfts to no end rather than attempt to seek understanding.
Intermediary-less digital ownership is incredibly powerful & will only grow in usage & utility by open-source evolving nature, perhaps exponentially.