Money only exists to make transactions of value easier, more secure, and fungible. Plot a trend graph along these axii and you get something like beads<salt<silver<gold<fiat<credit cards<{whatever digital thing is better and ends up winning}

The best user interaction experience so far, for me is Monero. Better than ETH better than lightning that's for damn sure. I am not shilling Monero, I trying to articulate that if BTC is to win, we are not doing a good job of closing the gap in experince of an every day thing like buying a pizza with what was once. Infact, with more and more layers and specialiazed solutions, like new address schemes, we are moving away and worse experiences than the KYC lazy alternatives. After a decade, how does bitcoin use approach the simple cash experince ? It does not. Monero is a little better.

Something is causing us to misalocate development resources and focus. I believe it might be engineer facination with complexity. (How many different ways can we sign and encrypt and send signed and encrypted data to eachother in time locked bondage sessions.)

If we are not trying to beat apple, and other cantillion institutions offering supperior user experiences, who are we trying to beat ?