and right now is best used as a digital store of value
No, bitcoin is not "a store of value", no more than dogecoin or airline miles are a "store of value". At the end of the day, the only type of endgame anyone wants from a monetary instrument is to receive a physical good or service for it. This is why commodity currencies are the only real form of money, because they are not IOUs, and thus have no counterparty risk. Just like fiat paper, bitcoin is nothing more than a debt instrument or IOU because it cannot actually be used for anything. You are hoping to trick someone into giving you something of use for your something of no use. One could even argue bitcoin is worse than fiat since even if the value of paper money goes to zero, you can at least set it on fire to keep yourself warm.
The bitcoin forum is plagued with people who have no understanding of money, and scammers who just flat out lie about what the difference in money and currency is. Bitcoin is not money. Although not debt issued like USD, it's just another debt instrument currency.
Okay, everything you said is correct (except for that image) but you're moving the goalposts here by re-defining what "money" means. It is true that gold and silver have intrinsic value but it's also true that collective delusion creates "money". In your opinion it would be more accurately called an IOU but most people call it money because money is usually defined as the most efficient way to trade things without bartering.
You certainly can't pay for a hamburger with silver but you might be able to buy lunch with Bitcoin or another crypto-currency soon. I already pay for my servers using Bitcoin.
If it's not possible to buy a hamburger with silver, I wonder how people did exactly that for oh...thousands of years.
Maybe you're right and it would be better in a hypothetical universe if we used silver or gold as a transactional unit. How would online purchases work in that case? Bitcoin is the only way to trade value using a decentralized network.
You're making a false comparison. It's not possible to create a decentralized cryptocurrency, so bitcoin was never an alternative to metals in the first place. Cryptocurrency either starts completely centralized from day one in the case of most proof of stake coins, or they just centralize more by the day in the case of proof of work. Anyone who has been around in bitcoin for years can see that. In the past people claimed "oh, commodification of ASICs will solve everything!", but that turned out to be completely wrong.
Long ago, people always mentioned the talking point concerning miners: "Why would anyone sell a money printing machine?". The answer is, they wouldn't. Selling shovels in California to gold miners is not a money printing machine; they are printing with their arms, not the shovel. A bitcoin miner you just plug in. There is no incentive for commodification of ASICs to exist. The monopolization of ASIC production will generally always be a weapon used against the general public in some form or another.
The only reason an ASIC monopoly man would want to sell you an ASIC for a reasonable price is if he cornered the bitcoin market first and wants you to help him create a better buffer for his pump and dump. But of course, once he starts to sell to realize some gains on his pump and dump, you're back to square one again of ASICs always being used as a weapon and holding the bag with an unprofitable ASIC.