Hopefully the leadership will improve because as the price continues to rise, more people will jump into invest. We don't want the bubble to burst anytime soon.
What leadership are we talking about, it's our leadership because we are dictating the price of bitcoin.
Bitcoin as a payment instrument, probably not as promising as we thought five years ago. But very promising cryptographic protocol - in the major western banks it is being used. For the client, of course, nothing changes - both paid with online bank and pay off.
As a payment instrument - or anything else, it is dying. Until somebody removes GMax, bitcoin is off to the ruins.