bitcoin is very much like pepsi... not lemonade (i prefer lemonade and wished bitcoin was lemonade, which it was until ~2014)
anyone can make lemonade in their own house, but try making 'pepsi' and you will end up in court
try changing bitcoin and be shunned by core
as for promoting bitcoin while its still strangled by core decision. at the moment core only want 600k transactions a day
people using visa/mastercard average 42tx a month =1.5tx a day. meaning for bitcoin to be as useful only 900,000 at best users can use it as fluidly as visa/mastercard
could pepsi compete against coca-cola if pepsi set a limit to only manufacture 600,000 bottles a day?
would people bother to buy pepsi if there were only 600k bottle a day to drink, or would they stick with cola or even try lemonade alternatives that offer more utility
in the end pepsi wont be part of peoples daily drink preference but just a collectable drink like vintage wine. only handed to the exclusive/elite crowd. thus dismiss and avoid the very demograph/populous it was initially intended for
I could not help but quote your post sir franky1 all because I love your comparison between Pepsi and the lemonade to that of Bitcoin. Yes, I agree that we can now liken Bitcoin to that of Pepsi competing with the bigger Cocoa-Cola. Taste tests? Of course, we had that with the faucets that became popular in the early years of Bitcoin. Some similarities are very obvious, indeed.
So the war here is between Bitcoin and the fiat money (representing the traditional economic and banking systems) and just like Pepsi it is trying to gain a big part of Coke's captured market. And just like the Pepsi journey, the road to triumph is not easy and always fraught with dangers, controversies, accusations, bans, half-truth/half-lies, etc. all done to try to stymie the growth and adoption of Bitcoin.
However, since my family has now a diabetic history, maybe I would always prefer the lemonade as it can be rich in Vitamin C, antioxidants, limonene which can be acting as anti-cancer and other nutrients still have to be discovered by science. And just like Bitcoin which can be mined, we can grow our own lemons in the backyard and with enough sunshine and care we just took the time to harvest the fruits and enjoy the results of our labor and toil. So instead of the Pepsi, lemonade can be better analogy and taste good at the same time.
Now, OP should not get me wrong, I just love the Coke vs. Pepsi analogy...that is so classic and an attention catcher!