I joined the BTC movement late, around 2013/2014 (no, I don't have tons of BTC, don't waste time trying to scam me) and I remember the excitement when there were new ways to spend your BTC. Maybe a new store accepting BTC, maybe a new way to sell your stuff for BTC, etc.
And it still happens today, although it's much harder to find or discussion about it. For example, have you heard about most recent grants by OpenSats that use Bitcoin[1]?
Nowadays all the talks are about storing your BTC and hope they go high like crazy. I get it, but that's a pyramid scheme, it's not a digital money revolution.
That's now how pyramid scheme works.
[1]
https://opensats.org/blog/tenth-wave-of-bitcoin-grants