Does Ethereum Foundation Really Doesn't Care About Numbers Go Down?

In this community people often shame me for only looking at the numbers and care about making profit, and their argument is always we have superior tech, more L1L2 usage, or metrics that doesn't help with profit.

The Ethereum dev circles are like a bunch of people that doesn't talk much about numbers, it seems like they don't care if the numbers go up or down, and to them building "better" product is the only thing important.

This entire community seems to force people to be "in it for the tech" and largely ignored investors and think they are shortsighted subpar human that are filled with greed and only care about profit.

From my perspective, Ethereum Foundation and dev circles see themselves as a higher tier elitist because they know the code, have higher moral standard and have the ability to build on the project, so they only communicate within themselves.

They also don't care about if other entity want to build project on Ethereum and not willing to give them even a little bit of recognition, and rarely talk about projects being built by third party on the network, for comparison look at Solana tweeter, they are actively interact with projects build on their network.

BUT the fact that Ethereum Foundation and Ethereum are able to grow to this size is largely because they benefits from numbers going up, Ethereum started with an ICO, crowdfunding from investors, and without numbers going up, they won't be able to grow as fast, won't be able to sell their ETH to pay their employee, fund their projects.

There's no tech company or tech project in this capitalism world doesn't care about numbers going up are able to sustain, to grow, to hire more talent, to increase adoption, to promote awareness.

If the numbers stop going up, eventually the funding will be dried up, talents will not waste their talent to build on the network if it won't be rewarded, and it will just slowly fade into irrelevance.

I think Ethereum Foundation should start allocate more fundings on their marketing department, and their business development department. Start talking to more businesses to consider building their project on the network, talking to more developers to build, interact more with anyone still have any interest in Ethereum, be it just investors that only cares about profit or businesses or coders, do more sponsorships, be more aggressive in marketing.

Attract more capital to expand and grow, provide more grant to promising project, etc

Stop shaming people only care about profits and numbers going up, these are investors, the only people still believe in the project and invested their money into project, stop telling them to fuck off because they complain about the numbers going down, in real world do we see tech company telling their VC to fuck off because their VC complain about non-performing?