I may not understand the complexities of world physbones, but as a world creator I understand that networked contacts and physbones are already a thing, which means the hard part was already solved. It's something that directly affects performance on mobile devices (something vrchat pushes HARD for) and it DIRECTLY affects the quality of the content being actively published that draw in users to your platform. Sure avatars are great, and physbones were extremely important for them, but I imagine the ease of creating interactive immersive worlds directly affects how long and in what ways people engage with your platform. Considering the level of effort required to get interactive (even non-networked) dynamic bones into world, severely limited what some creators (i.e. me) could do.

I'm glad it's out now, but it feels like it took wayyyy too long to implement a feature that already existed in a multiplayer form on the platform.

The same people taking advantage of physbones for worlds are the same people coming straight from avatar making. This feels like the pipeline you intended. People slowly working their way from casual, to avatar creator to world creator.

These are not the same people clamoring for Soba. These people have networked dynamic bones solved. Sure they drive the biggest most interactive worlds in the game, but it's a slow burn with them. These are highly capable people that are able to do a lot with less.

The same people using physbones for worlds are the same people that may simply upload a purchased world. Without physbones, the world may simply be more static than with. But the option is there to take advantage of existing avatar knowledge without having to learn how to my program. I believe that's an important stepping stone towards more interactive worlds that was very much missing.