It would be great if you could stop pretending Bitcoin's Layer 1 was created (and/or is able) to replace commercial banking, cash, plastic, and Starbucks gift cards while remaining diverse/diffuse/defensible/resilient. Please do the engineering.
It's hard to argue that it wasn't created for that when satoshi wrote about things like how to do zeroconf for vending machines:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=423.msg3819#msg3819Or micropayments becoming practical over time as storage and bandwidth costs fall:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=287.msg7687#msg7687In the subsequent years, some may have realized that isn't the best way to approach things but learning is different from revisionism.