in the same way you assume most people are ignorant of what is best for them, you ought to assume regimes are made of the very same ignorants and therefore the mechanisms of control are equally mediocre as the people that commands them... your opinions come from a financially privileged background, thats very clear from the moment you compared fiat and bitcoin operations only considering the usefulness for the user but selectively ignoring the censorship resistance considerations... this is indeed the most important aspect of bitcoin for us in the third world and needs to be considered in every value judgement if we want to be fair appraising our success as a movement