I agree with you that we ought to be thankful to Nakamoto because it has had a huge economic and social impact and the biggest changes are yet to come. A common thought says that technology is not who invents it, but who uses it, the most relevant thing in that sense is that the world is being modified by cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology and people who use them for the new inventions.
Without him Nakamoto we don't know the name of bitcoin and what function of bitcoin as digital payment and we never get much profit with bitcoin as investment assets, after Nakamoto publish bitcoin but no body know about him and where does he know, how much assets still holding in his wallet.