There is a difference between adults adapting to technology and children/teens growing up using such technology.
The danger of VR is eroding your own concept of digesting and processing information from the real world, as your brain over time will get used to every sound coming inches from your ear canal, visuals displayed inches from your eye balls and especially, how you brain develops geospational memory, as such memories will over time only be possible within the metaverse.
Funny enough, they haven't mastered the concept of smell/taste digitally, so it would be easier to remove this sense if they wanted people to surrender their existence and become digital characters as the extension of one self.
That is all it is about, the abstract true meaning of analog vs digital. Full control, as in literally "full control", is only possible in a realm where God is no longer the only creator, as someone other than myself could have put it.
Time will tell and shall filter this information for us: Fallen to sunken cost fallacy or simply following the narrative.