Government keep on pushing the cryptocurrency away, thinking they'll be able to control its widespread. They are not aware that they are actually helping it prosper by their policies and regulations. In fact, because of their blatant rejection of crypto, it has gained attention from the media. There are news and articles circulating online about what cryptocurrency is and its potential. This makes the crowd draw their concentration to what it has to offer, leading to more users and investors in cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin can't be manipulated and be enclosed inside the box by anyone else. It will surely bloom and thrive sooner or later. Government can do nothing about it. The more they hamper its growth, the more it will persist to soar.
I do not think as pessimistic as you do. I mean sure there are nations that has banned bitcoin, banned mining, banned whatever related to crypto and those nations do make it harder for us to buy crypto if we are in that nation. However look at USA and European nations, those places are basically just doing whatever they want to and that is the important part, if they really want to they could have banned it as well and they did not, now they are even supporting it.
So that means even though there are few nations that do not look kindly on bitcoin, there are more nations that support crypto revolution and regulate it very well so that is a good thing. I am not saying that what the other nations are doing would be good, banning it is very bad for us, but if we just look at the bad side we will see bad things, if we can also look at the good nations we can be optimistic about it.