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Utopias not being achievable doesn't make them useless. They give us a model for how things could be better. Marx's communism is never going to happen, but it gave people a model to compare industrial society to, and the labor movements that grew out of those comparisons did make things suck less for workers. So, the Internet as a place without scarcity or political control, where what you know is the only thing that limits your ability to participate, can be a good model even if the Internet has never and will never really be that. It gives us a standard by which to judge the actually existing Internet, and a better standard than "how easy is this to monetize".