Are you implying that immigrants or devs working remote from other countries are less competent? If so, consider how much additional hurdles those guys had to overcome in order to find a job in the US.
Most of the "web3 VC's" with NFT avis and .eth handles (see Chris Dixon) are obnoxiously tweeting about how "web2" sucks and that you don't have any ownership in it whereas "web3" is a decentralized utopia where you own every single piece of information about yourself and have the ultimate freedom to do anything.