I believe that bitcoin still provides a lot of utility, fairness, improvements and disruption, even if it ends UP being used by mostly richer people... not that I am advocating for such a world because I do believe that there are going to continue to develop second and third layer solutions that still empower less wealthy people.. and especially if such less wealthy people are escaping a country with all of their wealth (let's say that they have $100k or even smaller amounts such as $10k), they may well be better to escape with bitcoin in their heads rather than having gold stuffed up their nether regions.
People in certain 3rd world countries earn 1 USD per day and have to pay for housing and food with that. I am not entierly shure how those people then can pay for their food and housing if a single transaction would cost 1.000 USD. And for such a person it would also be not an option to just wait for the next bear market to be able to buy a piece of bread.