To my regret, cryptocurrencies in my country have no practical use, so only trading and HODL remain. I hope that the situation will change in the next couple of years, because the essence of cryptocurrencies is not just to be just a speculative tool
that situation still happens in many countries so there has not been a major change to cryptocurrency because to use cryptocurrency in real life is still very rare, wider use will indeed happens after large scale adoption happens in many countries
Hope this happens. Although the governments of some countries have a negative attitude to the introduction of cryptocurrencies in their economies and are trying in every possible way to block any attempts to pay with cryptocurrency.