It's just that I keep thinking of the words of Satoshi on his white paper:

"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."

When was the last time you sent BTC to someone as electronic cash to pay for something (an item, a service, etc.)? I feel nowadays people just buy and HODL and the price keeps on going up only because less and less BTC are available on the market, being HODL by people.