I find it a decent barometer for how much a topic is being searched for. This is relevant to determining the popularity of a search term, which relates to the popularity of a topic.
It's dead for now. The time isn't right. But will there be something like a "metaverse" in the future? Certainly. There will be many and they'll be cool.
Will it be called that and come from a company with almost no innovation and even less imagination? Certainly not.
In other words, Meta is dead. The idea, well, it's too early to say.
