We all want cryptocurrencies to gain value. But we do not use them as a currency in our daily lives. I think this is a big contradiction.
no it is not, it is your mistake for making wrong assumptions.
"we" all want to make more money from trading altcoins in short term that is why nobody has ever used altcoins outside of trading on exchanges. and that is also why nobody has been creating any coins for actual usage for many years now. we basically have bitcoin as a currency and some projects in early years which are not at the bottom of the lists. the rest are pump and dumps.