Beginnings are always difficult and innovators have a hard time dragging the early adopters into the scheme of things. Once they get enough early adopters into the mix, the world expands exponentially. We will be seeing the explosion, soon.

There are some folks in the 'dev community' who are quite negative. There is/was also some negativity due the ordinals and NFT spam finding its way to the Bitcoin blockchain... NFTs are a 'crypto' thing and it surprised many that altcoiners actually wanted to pay (large) BTC fees to post monkey jpegs everywhere.

Having said that... there has also been some negativity about miner centralization, template centralization, and the fragility of US-based mining pools being pressured by governments.

There are also criticisms about privacy... since Wasabi and Whirlpool went offline (although alternatives are available for sure). KYC/AML is everywhere and it doesn't prevent crime... but it does harm privacy for MoE.

Then there are the Bitcoiners... who believe that unless hundreds of millions of people (who still have never heard of Bitcoin) can immediately and quickly open Lightning channels... that Lightning is a failed project. In other words... if lightning can't scale to hundreds of millions today right now then it is failed (which is of course silly).

Then you have the criticisms about the ETF-ization of Bitcoin... people need to hold their own keys, not buy ETFs if possible. Holding keys is the real deal... ETFs aren't really Bitcoin they are 'scarcity-exposure' without being able to send and receive.

Then on top of that... you have "traditional publications" like the financial times and bloomberg and so on and they don't get Bitcoin at all.

"What is the point of Monkey Pictures" they ask?