Satoshi, greatest computer engineer of all time, was not good at programming
! How stupid things people can say ! These stupid things also always come from people that does not know anything about programation by the way !
Simply put, you are a
complete baboon with the education level of a western primary school kid. Satoshi was horrible at programming, he also made some bad decisions during the design. He was a visionary, therefore also a genius of his own kind. This does not, in any way, make him good in CS. FYI he introduced a bug which created 84 billion Bitcoin in the early days. So much for the "greatest computer engineer of all time".
Stop spewing shit for a few cents.
But I think the whitepaper tell us a different story. Should we move away from the original reason why Bitcoin is created and rewrite the whitepaper so that all things claimed that is not written on the original Bitcoin whitepaper will look legit and part of the original plan of Bitcoin?
It doesn't matter what the Whitepaper says. The whitepaper can't predict the future and it is only an documentation of the initial idea. It should not be rewritten for historical reasons, although an updated version could be possibly created by someone. Bitcoin is already very different from what is described there, e.g. there is a lot of undocumented stuff that was added later.
The simple answer to OPs question is 'Yes'. People are idiots. I'd say that over 99% are completely ignorant, and almost all of those (if not all) are also indirectly or directly being manipulated by the media.