I think most of this read your post and nodded our heads in recognition of everything you said! I've given up trying to convince people outside of crypto now and just wait for them to come to me when they are ready.
I am thinking about promoting Rising Star to non-crypto people via something like Facebook ads under the strapline of "earn money playing games". I am not sure if the conversion would be that good until the media have no choice but to be positive about crypto when Bitcoin breaks $20k again though.