I think there's a lot more of the "people" holding and using bitcoin than you realize.  It does seem like lately a lot of news surrouding bitcoin has a corporate side to it. I think that is more so to do with all the talk around corporate finance and ETF's.  Bitcoin and cryptocurrency has been a hot topic in the financial industry and fiancial coporations have all gotten in on the craze one way or another, even if it's that they denounce it's use/mertit.

I simply don't thinik individual use by the every day person is very newsworthy at the moment, so you just don't see or hear it being reported..even though it is going on.