And since this is a common argument in the $TAO community against subnets with ETH tokens:

No, we have never been here to just extract value from $TAO. If $NEURAL was just the subnet, we wouldn't be anywhere near as successful as we are.

This didn't change with $dTAO, I would argue $dTAO made it possible for us to intensify this further considering we now have full control to build it out to the best of our ability.

We are literally shaping the evolution of virtual world building.