Little by little western countries are legalizing bitcoin recognizing it as safe asset to invest in. During a financial crisis, bitcoin is one of the safest asset to hold, incase a repetition of the great depression happens.
The adoption is where things are going with cryptocurrency. It may be slow or but with ATMs its like advertisement and allowing a newbie to come into cryptocurrency, But most importantly for those who don't like KYC, this is way to go than using the credit cards or paypal.
Unfortunately though newbies oftem times doesn't care about KYC so they'd be going to exchanges which still doesn't make difference, its still part of the adoption.