I will not disagree that there is confusion and bad arguments on both sides of the debate, which is why you are essentially arguing within the wrong framing.
At the same time, people buying NFTs are generally quite a bit less confused about what you consider "lies" than you seem to think.
Importantly, the blockchain is not useless because they have to exist within the universe's rules of impermanence. You may want to ponder the differences and shared properties between something like seditionart.com, MASS MoCA's ownership of Sol Le Witt wall paintings, and an NFT on a blockchain.
Finally, let me point out that the URI issue is very much a misunderstanding that is widespread within the NFT community as well. It helps to think of the URI as a convenience feature rather than someone implying anything about the value of the token. There are fascinating experiments with tokens that have no url, tokens that have no visual representation, tokens with changing urls, or arbitrary urls; tokens that point to the same url. There are of course tokens that use data uris, and have the image-representation on-chain, or generate it dynamically; or they do so but not in URL form. There are technical implementations where the database of urls is separate from the ledger of tokens; there are early experiments by artists with blockchains (many years before anyone cared about NFTs) where there is no ability to store a URL in the first place.
Cryptopunks, a really early project, simply stored a hash to a file containing the assembled images, and that is all that is needed.
At the same time, people buying NFTs are generally quite a bit less confused about what you consider "lies" than you seem to think.
Importantly, the blockchain is not useless because they have to exist within the universe's rules of impermanence. You may want to ponder the differences and shared properties between something like seditionart.com, MASS MoCA's ownership of Sol Le Witt wall paintings, and an NFT on a blockchain.
Finally, let me point out that the URI issue is very much a misunderstanding that is widespread within the NFT community as well. It helps to think of the URI as a convenience feature rather than someone implying anything about the value of the token. There are fascinating experiments with tokens that have no url, tokens that have no visual representation, tokens with changing urls, or arbitrary urls; tokens that point to the same url. There are of course tokens that use data uris, and have the image-representation on-chain, or generate it dynamically; or they do so but not in URL form. There are technical implementations where the database of urls is separate from the ledger of tokens; there are early experiments by artists with blockchains (many years before anyone cared about NFTs) where there is no ability to store a URL in the first place.
Cryptopunks, a really early project, simply stored a hash to a file containing the assembled images, and that is all that is needed.