Not being centralized and under control of 2 people? Who would want to accept a currency thats basically a playground for two man children?
I personally never owned XRP and do not consider buying any in the future as well, even when offered XRP as a payment I have always declined and asked for some other currency and I have accepted worst of coins yet still not XRP. People who support XRP either do it and know what they are doing, or they have no clue how idiotic and horrible XRP is, if you just google xrp a bit and search why people dislike XRP you will literally come up with thousands of results. It is basically a play money some guys printed and you guys are gullible enough to buy into it... for no reason at all? I mean even they don't think XRP is important part of their business.
Enlightened with this knowledge, it looks like Ripple is just trashing XRP, aka making yet another coin because they can. Mainly they want to make a funds transferring platform for big banks who will most likely have their own stablecoin that only a select few can buy. Those "bankercoins" are hardly ideal coins for ordinary people to pay with.
All of their products look like they are made for banks and I totally don't understand why famous rich people are buying this (Ashton Kutcher, Scooter Braun, etc etc) if the cryptocurrency itself isn't even important.
Imagine a reversible cryptocurrency and if that's to happen what's the difference with paypal considering both of them are centralized anyway. The reason why bitcoin has become widely accepted among online stores due to the fact that it's popular enough for these stores to consider and could potentially attract new customers. Meanwhile, XRP is just a centralized crypto which popularity is driven from trading activities and people who makes profit off it.
I have to agree, XRP and many other altcoins are only popular as trading tools to be honest. But considering that most real life things would be on sale for fractions of bitcoin, people would be more inclined to deal with whole units of things, not just with money but with all of their activities. It's like pricing things at $99.99 instead of $100 for example: 9 is less than 10 and people mentally round it down to the 90s. So if I price something at it's equivalent, 0.012 btc, then people will round that down to 0.01 but that messes with their mind because that is supposed to be a small number. Which could cause them to think that everything priced in btc is expensive.