Yeah, I'm not trying to strawman it. I think a useful, and totally legit thing, is to say: btc allows us to remove trust from certain aspects of transacting in a way that scales; and that this trust-removal unlocks conditions where trust can actually grow globally. So you remove the requirement for trust in one part of the ecosystem, and on net this is good for global trust.

That's a nuanced take that I could fully endorse. I'm sure some people do talk that way. But there are so many takes that are just as bad and caricaturish as I represented.