This all circular economy will take time, merchants struggle to trust the technology because there are not many customers paying with it. So even if many does the initial investment to accept BTC, then they stop because there's not enough inflow to maybe pay the service provider offering the POS.
I agree with you, stackers should contribute more to the ecosystem, having maybe setting up a spending budget or donations amount?
In the ~AGORA we don't see much activity from sellers, nor from buyers. We try to incentivize with our Spending Sunday ... latest one today #721244