Most of the time loads of people tried to put too much emphasis on the proof of work that's the labor theory of value nonsense there's no point of putting in work in something that nobody cares about.
Although simultaneously you have to think about it from another lens if you are the one that cares about it then it will show through your work and inevitably someone else will care about it if they see that you're doing it for yourself.
Proof of work is fuck all, if the work is meaningless. So go out there and make that work mean something even if the only one out means anything to, is you.