People still don't understand cryptocurrencies, and at this point it seems more like intentional obtuseness for political reasons. At the same time, cryptocurrencies still haven't provided a killer app that shuts everyone up. So, IMO that's the only real thing that matters. Either you build something with it that's useful - or it isn't useful. I understand that it's difficult because of all the infrastructure require…
The Internet was opened to commercial use, in 1993. That is 29 years ago.
Bitcoin is half the age of the commercial Internet, so Bitcoin is no longer new.
14 years after the opening of the Internet to commercial use, Google was well established, Facebook and Twitter were rising rapidly, MySpace and Digg had already peaked but still had huge audiences. Amazon had already become a behemoth.
How many more years can people continue to claim "crypto is so new, it hasn't had time yet to establish a killer app"?
All of these industries had become major industries within 14 years of their discovery:
telephones, 1876, big industry by 1890
automobiles, 1886, big industry by 1900
The industry with the longest struggle to get the technology "good enough" was perhaps radio with modulation to carry the human voice, 1906 first proof of concept, the industry took off in 1920.
The point is, 14 years after their discovery, everyone could easily tell you what cars, telephones and commercial radio was for. The utility was obvious to everyone. But cryptocurrencies are still struggling to come up with a straightforward use case that people can understand.