Web3 User Experience is terrible

I've been heavily invested in Ethereum since 2019 or so. I have never tried to use Ethereum for what it was built for, until now. I'm a developer by trade, and after buying my hardware wallet, I got the itch to play around a bit with the eco-system. Really test out what I'm investing in.

I want to check out Defi, NFTs etc. I opened up a separate 'trading' wallet first on meta mask. I bought some Eth after the KYC process, so far so good. I'm used to it taking a few minutes to actually receive the Eth, no problem. Then I try connect meta mask and Open Sea, using my mobile. They just won't authenticate with each other. Open Sea goes in a loop to connect and never does. So a little frustrated, I say let me try another option. Coinbase is a global leader.

Download the coinbase wallet, try connect to Opensea and it's way smoother. No issues to connect. But Opensea has this, use the app for browsing but when purchasing you have to go through the browser in the app and connect again etc. already quite frustrating.

Finally I manage to connect my coinbase wallet, purchase an nft. In Opensea, I see my NFT, in the coinbase wallet I see nothing. At least for 10 minutes or longer. I close the apps, I start then again. I have to keep reconnecting the wallet with Opensea.

There's still my profile in Opensea that's 'unnamed' there's no visibility of where the issue lies. What I want to understand is, are the apps just poorly built? Or is Ethereum simply too slow for modern applications to read data from the Blockchain like the NFTs that I own?

The authentication between apps on mobile is clearly dismal. The time it takes to purchase and view your assets is just way too long for 2025. The marketplace has been open for so long, and yet as an ordinary non tech user, it's just far too confusing to understand why things take so long, and the lack of transparency on applications when data is being fetched or sent to the Blockchain.

I think there's a huge gap of abstraction here from the technology itself. As an ordinary customer with online shopping or logistics, now a days you are so used to getting status updates, progress bars etc. to track things. It gives you peace of mind. I don't want to have to open 3 different apps Etherscan, coinbase wallet Opensea to track what's happening. Nor do I want to wait for a purchase order to go through.

The actual purchase doesn't have to be settled to get this information right? So why don't apps do this? What's your take on the web3 experience? I haven't got into Defi yet, but I imagine it's even more unuser friendly.