I think people are just responding to how much hype there is. Yes it is cool, immersion feels fun and different. Lifting up that jar and looking at the alien in the first room in Alyx was very cool.

But its just a new way of looking at pixels on a screen. You can't actually "do" anything that you can't already do now.

You can pretend to fly the moon. You can simulate going on an adventure. Its all just entertainment.