The bulk of which are probably still valid today, but you can’t understand because you have conflated price with value.

"Send an email to kick off this manual process with lots of waiting for another human to do a thing, and once he has your money, he may or may not do what he said he would, and if he does, hope he types in your information correctly, and if he does, hope that the one copy of the ledger hosted on some guy's computer doesn't go down, and if it doesn't, hope you don't have to sell because the marketplace is charging 10% rent on transactions and you have no alternatives..."

It is just to have fun!

Don't take my word for it, look at the hilarious comments in this discussion.

No one took it seriously and thought "NFTs are just a set of records" or "you don't need a blockchain."

Not always.