Of course, without whales, the price of crypto currency will not grow to the moon, but these same whales lower prices! If were the whales did not press the price, I think that were have another picture - much better!
As more and more people use crypto governments would eventually catch on and want to use it. I mean look at Bitcoin at it's beginnings, it didn't have much adoption but as time went on it grew to the point where the average person has heard of it.