Once you start to use cryptocurrency in everyday life you will start to appreciate low fees and privacy over almost anything else.

The thing is digital cash, just needs to be better than fiat today or your CBDC tomorrow. Monero for example has an ever decreasing inflation of currently 0.86% p.a. That's much better than anything the fiat empires can come up with and still fiat is currency.

Back in the days (2012-2015) it was fun to use Bitcoin at your favorite bar (real life adoption seemed to explode). It took me and the community quite a while to realize that Bitcoin as it is today is missing some qualities that make money work in the first place e.g. fungibility. Bitcoin did just so many things so good or good enough, that many didn't bother to look into not to speak of (how heretic) invest into other projects.

This changed since I switched from investing and speculating with cryptocurrency to using it on a regular basis buying all kinds of services and things with it (not DNM related).

After 12 exciting years in this space I sincerely believe that Monero is the legitimate successor of the former Bitcoin project coming closest to the vision of actual "peer-to-peer electronic cash".