It has given people the uncommon privilege of enjoying privacy and bypassing financial middlemen.
Bitcoin is not a privacy coin unless you go for it and be private the way you want to be. Most people just use bitcoin the way they thought it is and not knowing the privacy that you are referring to. But if comparing bitcoin with fiat, it is more private.
OP it is true that the digital nature of bitcoin has made it easy to acquire it. But don't also forget that many countries also have CBDC and they are not still popular.
People are not foolish about CBDCs because they know they are fiat. CBDCs are not the first fiat that is digitally created becusse fiat has been existing in digital form since many years ago before CBDCs were created. The main reason bitcoin adoption continues is becusse of its appreciating value and people see it as investment, but fiat is not like that. CBDCs are fiat.