When the world learns the number 2 crypto is being run by Mr. Thompson's 9th grade Computer Science class, it gives some big-pocket investors some pause, across the entire sector.
Maybe you don't need trust to transact financially in the brave new world, but if you don't have the technical chops and/or time to distinguish players within a new sector, you need trust to invest there.
I find it a tad tricky to muster up much sympathy if they haven't done their due diligence. Anyone with half a day to read up will soon realise that crypto is littered with amateurism, children and scumbags.