And this is the thing about new tech. I can tell you 99% of business owners who accept virtual payments or have eshops have 0 idea about how it works. And they still do it.
Wouldn't that be increasing the odds of making a technical mistake or a preventable loss dramatically higher?
For many people, having a 3rd party with support is exactly why they go to it. If someone runs into a technical mistake or their card payment gets an unauthorized loss, they call the bank and get it refunded. Happens to me before, when I still had credit card. If I got scammed I simply call the bank and get a refund (chargeback). Free.
I could never do this with Bitcoin.
Imagine a shopowner, retired people, using Bitcoin purely on their own. And a customer scams them with double spend (when it was possible). Now actually still possible with some alts. Can he get insurance? Or they simply make a mistake, send a huge miners fee. Will they know how to get it back?
Solution? Use 3rd party. Solve all their need for technical awareness. Get protection.
In business and consumer, this is the mentality. So again, I say, adoption is little thing to do with awareness.
I mean look at email, few of us know how to send an actual email routing through SMTP or whatever. We just open a 3rd party email provider and tell it send our mail. In the future 99% of people will use BTC this way. Setting mining fee, coin control etc teaching people about it is not gonna make them use BTC.
The generation before us will want all the commodities they have with banks, so it's natural for them to crave these security checks, so to speak..
We will see will this mentality changes or not, but I do think that not much.