It also gave all of us the "idea" of something like "Bitcoin", a form of "money" that is not controlled by the state, is achievable.
Bitcoin might fail, but the idea lives on to make a better "Bitcoin".
To be fair, gold sort of already showed us that. Gold bugs have been talking about decentralized, sound money for a long time. Bitcoin improved on that foundation by adding transferability over a communications channel, predictable scarcity, portability and divisibility.
bitcoin is code. so its developers you should be scrutinising
Shouldn't it be the code that's being scrutinized?