Look at the Bitcoin whitepaper once more: a peer-to-peer electronic payment system indeed. Was Satoshi really envisioning a payment system so widespread that it became a preferred way of paying for goods and services? What's happening today? Bitcoin is now more of an investment than a payment tool. In fact, it's as if all the cryptocurrencies are businesses for their inventors, bar Satoshi—a means of becoming automatic millionaires rather than a peer-to-peer payment system. In fact, the quickest way to get rich these days seems to be by starting a crypto project.
Not even the guy that started Bitcoin Satoshi Vision is exempted.
Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer payment system? Nah... more of a decentralized speculative investment platform.
Bitcoin have not deviated from Satoshi's vision for its creation rather it is doing exactly what it was created to do... to be a form of value and a medium of exchange. People keep the dollar in their bank accounts as a means of saving for the future, that does not mean others are not paying for goods and services with the dollar. In my country, many people have become millionaires by simply holding the dollar, which experienced explosive growth against our local currency.
That people are even holding Bitcoin and profiting from it is a good indication that Bitcoin is doing very well in line with the purpose of its creation.