What is the response in 2025 to the claim ethereum is a solution looking for a problem?

Hey folks, just wondering what recent upgrades have enabled in terms of new use cases for ethereum? Is there anything that the average user can do with the network other than contribute to its security or participate in Defi?

For the record, I believe in the project, but I’m fairly sure apart from staking I don’t see anything going on that I would get involved in at the moment, if there was a large decentralized tokenized stock exchange, for example, that would be a game changer for me which seems feasible but afaik doesn’t currently exist..