Firstly, is bitcoin legal in your country? Or legal for what? As only a digital asset or even for a "currency".
because, in my country, it is also not legal as a currency, so that the thought as him is very often to be found, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are only for increasing the profits and then exchanging them for fiat.
However, what we are experiencing doesn't mean to reflect all things about that itself. That is why we need to be open-minded to the world where there are so many differences between one another. Every country will have its own regulation and every regulation will give an impact on the use of crypto itself.
We can see some merchants actually accept Bitcoin as a payment method and also salary. But, it may not be too significant because it is still rare to be found.
Very good your observation!
In my country we do not have regulations on digital currencies, so we have no problem with the acceptance and use of this payment method in establishments, however as you mentioned, the high cost of Bitcoin itself is a game changer, so we have other currencies at a lower price, making, in a way, a contribution towards the acceptance of financial cryptography in the most diverse places.
As a whole, whenever we take Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies and try to compete with state currencies we will encounter barriers ...
I believe that here, in this regard, we will always have this problem of choosing what can be usual in the middle of cryptocurrencies and to what extent it becomes legal (legally speaking) in the applied region.