You have every right to be skeptical about the Metaverse but you're doing yourself a major disservice if you do not look closely at the opportunities presented by the arrival of Metaverse components.
Look for the large cybersecurity tool providers to increase the integration of their own toolsets into one management environment to provide a more holistic security management solution.
Be ready to do the bulk of your development in Cloud-native form. Think hard about lifting and shifting and rather consider redeveloping that system into a Cloud-native architecture. You may be surpirsed.
Look very closely at no-code/low-code and what it can do for you. It may mean that you will have to restructure to enable your business technologists to start delivering products but if you strategically couple that with your IT resources you come out with a force multiplied result.