Part 2 of "road to adoption": Community adoption is important. We like to look at centralized entities, measure adoption using a variety of metrics, mostly from centralized entities, and base success on criteria that are common to the traditional financial system. But… we’re not in a classical financial system.
The point of Bitcoin is creating a parallel financial system that provides something that the classical financial system cannot provide. You don’t trade a US Treasury bond or Tesla stock options hand-to-hand at a cabin in the Tatras. The classical financial system needs centralised entities because it is built differently.
On the other hand, Bitcoin is peer to peer. Decentralized. Permissionless. And that’s what adoption should look like. If someone finds it difficult to run a hardware wallet and buy Bitcoin in peer to peer mode, let’s help them. If they’re good friends or family, we’ll do it for free and gladly. If the good deeds are already starting to go over our heads, we can make a living by helping people get Bitcoin the way it was intended. We can provide the service of setting up wallets and making Bitcoin available.