It kind of sucks that people have to use payment processors to spend Bitcoin when that's exactly what it wants to prevent, but I suppose it's a good short-term measure. I just hope these existing options don't dissuade merchants from accepting Bitcoin directly in the future.
But yeah, I would be psyched about this if I were German.
I really doubt merchants will be enthusiastic about accepting bitcoins directly considering how volatile it is and also considering they are simply in business to make profits..
Accepting the bitcoin directly could propel them to incur losses as the price is definitely never stable
It could be setup in a way that automatically converts the bitcoin to their local currency this taking the risk out of it, I have seen this in other programs.
They could also just save the bitcoin and make a nice profit in the future.