People are afraid of everything new. They are afraid of what they do not understand. Read how people felt about the Internet when it appeared. the same as now to the blockchain technology.
Unfortunately it's true. People are by nature very distrustful and conservative. But technological development cannot be stopped. Progress is very rapid.
people have forgotten how to trust others, because there was a lot of deception in their life, as a child, a person inherently trusts almost everything,but with age, an instinct of distrust is developed, because our life consists of a lot of deception