I know that the idea of increasing the human element in a trustless system seems scary but if we need the mass adoption to happen we need to see how people feel about what's in front of them.
In my understanding we'll never see mass adoption happening if people cannot talk to people. As good as it sounds to me, not everybody wants to sit in their room talking to a screen. People need to see people, people need to talk to people and so that they might come to trust each other.
Bitcoin has faults and so does EOS (I might not be the best judge) and so does many other currencies. In the end people will decide to walk with the devil they know. We all are scared of the fact that democracies have been hijacked historically. To be truthful many of us don't trust our own "democratic' governments. But this does not mean that the same thing will happen to a system that we bring human element into.
'faith' such a small world but it creates all the difference in the end.