Bitcoin was never supposed to be a mainstream payment system for everyone to use. It has an audience and a purpose, and people who still think it's going to completely overtake digital fiat and be the currency of the future are delusional.
The fees were never that low and "free" fees were just an illusion created by online wallet providers. The convenience was never that great and all these addresses and confirmations and things like that aren't as obvious as payment systems like credit cards can be.
It's great for people who like security, decentralisation and control over their own funds. It's also good as an asset. It has its own purpose and shouldn't always be compared to that.
i somewhat agree
never designed for 7billion people.
- but no reason to hold it back from being used by a few dozen-hundred million. using doomsdays of "wont reach 7bill by midnight"
never designed for free use
- but no reason to force fees up now to $1 using doomsdays of 'just pay more coz pools need it by midnight.
however
we could expand bitcoin naturally using proper code that grows naturally over time.. not half baked gestures that still cant promise 7tx/s onchain
we could expand bitcoin naturally using proper code that grows naturally over time.. to keep fees reasonable that take care of mining in DECADES
we could develop the GUI and hardware wallets to not be so complex.
but instead we have been left with the debates of one group that just wants half promises that dont match the communities overal united desires that will continue being debated until 2019 if they had their way