Not everything takes off the same way. Lots of people are investing in meme coins to turn around a quick profit rather than investing in long term projects. It's just the phase that crypto is going through at the moment.
PoW is the goal and gas of the crypto consensus world and will be largely replaced with PoS for sure. But despite that if crypto as a whole and those that use PoW can be used to innovate better ways of producing electricity then it will leave a lasting legacy.
Be interesting to see how many mainstream bookies start accepting Dash so they can do away with some of the dreadful money vendors some use (Neteller anyone!)
Yeah the die is cast already with tracking people etc. It stands to reason governments will come after cryptos that offer genuine anonymity down the line.
It comes into it's own as well as other cryptos too to be fair when it comes to overseas payments and not having to bother with getting ripped off with exchange rates.