People still have a hard time seeing change as it happens. Many saw the beginnings of personal computers as a waste of time/resources, then the internet as a meaningless thing, it took time and a few visionaries to see the value, it will take time for people to see and learn about the value of their own data, and the importance of their ownership of the data.
When "Open Source" first came around people looked at it with a lot of mistrust, now it is becoming more and more of an every day thing, programs built and offered virtually free, this was something that Microsoft could not abide, so they bought Git-Hub, so now a lot of the open source people have moved to Git-Lab. This should give people an idea of what happens when a centralized authority actively tries to control a group of independent decentralized people.
I used this example today, as a long time ago, my eldest brother said "the internet is a fad" - he also said, digital cameras will never replace film, electric cars will never be mass adopted and, crypto is a scam.
Yep - the land of many forks.