Imagine somebody gave you some weird, difficult to use and not very useful to you technological device - for example, a ham radio. Would you try to understand how it works and become a hobbyist radioamateur, or just pawn it for $500 at the local thrift store or something?
And even that is assuming that the dev doesn't make a few thousand sock puppets and claim the coins himself, left pocket to right pocket. A very optimistic assumption.
I get what you're saying but is crypto really any less complicated now for the average person acquiring it the "normal" way? I wanted to pull my hair out trying to help my dad buy bitcoin from coinbase, setting up 2FA and then send it to another exchange and buy PMC. I don't think every citizen of Iceland will start using it but I think the media attention will be huge. Besides in a smaller city all it really takes is a few guys with a booth set up to help the average person out, and even convince them to hold onto their money for a long time until crypto is easier to use for the common person.