I was at a bar in Brooklyn, NY last summer and was doing a public poll for my own entertainment to gauge sentiment.
I shit you not I asked about 300 people in the span of the day about Bitcoin. People from age 21-35 and only 3 people owned Bitcoin, and of those 3 only one had it in cold storage.
We are so early with Bitcoin itself it is no wonder why the Bitcoin collectibles space hasn't taken off yet.
I suspect it might be another 10 years before Casascius coins get any real traction.
This, exactly this.
I don't think people are ready for this whole crypto thing yet, we should give them more time to get accustomed to the idea.
It's not just technical literacy, it's also the ideology of satoshi that must be learned in-order to get a larger perspective.