Performative consumerism/"nerd culture" has arguably receded since those days. Superhero movies have begun flopping at the box office, Funko Pops are pretty much universally frowned upon, no one cares about Star Wars anymore, there's been notable backlash against the Switch 2, adults who collect toys and legos are rightfully mocked again, and so on and so forth. It may have been driven that way by economic factors, but the "debate" has been nudged to a healthier place than where it was a decade ago.
OP is a subversive faggot. This pilpul is the same shit oven dodgers have always pulled on conspiracy-related message boards. "Stop talking about shit that actually matters, I wanna talk about the fun conspiracies like bigfoot!" It's all so fucking tiresome.