How did the "Number Go Up" people Co-Opt Ethereum and what can we do about it?

At this point r/ethtrader has more than half a million more members than r/ethereum and it appears that all they care about is price. How can a technology as amazing as Ethereum with PoS coming, a massive amount of Dapps, insane scaling technology zk-snarks, rollups and optimism and arbritum et al still not gather as much hype as meaningless market volatility. This is really in my opinion doing damage to the project that we know and love. At this rate in my opinion it's not going to be too long before Ethereum starts being talked about like Bitcoin as a store of value and we shouldn't use it! Like wtf Vitalik and Co built this blockchain to be used and experimented with and to build things that people wouldn't even imagine. I know of course it's being used a lot right now with gas fees this high but I mean even when we move to PoS I imagine still a majority of holders will still be speculators.

Is this what we have become? An amazing project with amazing ideas, Dapps and scaling solution, for the only thing people take away is I must buy this asset to protect myself from inflation BS. I don't want Ether to be hoarded, it needs to be used to drive innovation and ideas. Not to be recommended by brain dead asset managers at stupidly rich banks and looked at as a "silver" to bitcoins gold. How has a project with such elite ideals at its outset been turned into this this new "ahahaha I can buy 32 ETH and stake and never work again" like WTF this is totally not something we as a community we should be encouraging and I really hope that although the implementation of EIP 1559 was noble it was entirely stolen by the media as an idea to make ETH ultrasound money. Like NO we the community should be saying we don't care about this inflation BS we don't want to replace BTC we want to make a better future for the world, be the world computer like in Vitalik's original vision not some dumb banker coin that hopes to protect them from inflation or some talking head like Raoul Pal saying pump ETH price or stay poor.

Seriously we as a community need to stamp out this rampant price speculation weird incentive structure to only be positive about ETH or IMO it's going to destroy our ethos just like it's destroying bitcoins community right now which is only focused on price.