How often do you transact in the real world with your bitcoin or digital money?
The question might not be "how often", but "how willing" are you to spend Bitcoin more often (If that is possible) in your area. Since most of the people in crypto space are keeping every fraction of Btc to save for the next bullrun.
To make things short, most people treat Bitcoin as a store of value more than a currency. We have not much of an option here in the 3rd world county, especially in a rural places like where I am currently situated to pay something in Btc simply because you can't barely find someone accepting Btc. However, I have to agree with you that because there is no writing about a merchant not accepting Bitcoin doesn't mean they automatically rejects Bitcoin as payment, we could always ask.
I totally agree with you firstly that people will definitely be reluctant to spend their Bitcoin directly in purchasing goods/services when in most cases you have bought your BTC at a higher price hance you want to keep them so that we can make profits from them.
I don't think it is just the third world countries, I suppose not every area even in the developed countries you will find where to spend your BTC directly and your last comment reminded me of this post which is true.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5401052.0