You are right but you know most of the people are just here for the sake money. Very few are actually here because they believe in the technology.
Satoshi's view for bitcoin was that it becomes a globally accepted currency eliminating any middle man in between their transactions. But people are using it as an asset and hence it is a decentralized currency the volatility increases it's price, profiting the investors. A large part of the community is here just to trade and gain more money. There is pretty much nothing we could do about it because of the negative publicity of bitcoin.
Let's see how it goes forward. I am really excited to see how a world changing currency ends up survives  .

Well I guess decentralization is the only thing we have from bitcoin's initial form.
While I don't see nothing bad from using it as an asset and less than a currency. Little do we know Satoshi is happy that his bitcoin turn to something more useful. Bitcoin turned out to be versatile.

Every project that came after $Bitcoin, has only sort to deviate from the $Bitcoin ideology. It is good that $Bitcoin ushered in Blockchain technology; it was meant to be a tool to keep transactions online discreet and convenient, it was meant to cushion the effects of ailing and failing financial systems, it was meant to introduce privacy to the lives of those who meant well without criminalizing it, it was meant to be an economic tool that guarantees equality and transparency, it was meant to introduce a distributed system of equal rights, these days most coin creators are monopolizing the idea behind blockchain, some have introduced greed into the equation, others create coins without taking into cognizance the "Anti inflationary" mechanism, others have used the good of the technology to bring in scams. Overall the ideology behind $Bitcoin is being rubbished by those employing blockchain as a technology.

Where exactly did you hear this? Or are just making up bullshit propaganda from hearsay rumors of weedloves who dream of zombie apocalypses in their vivid hallucinogenic dream? Cite a source for this or GTFO.

Centralized coins are subject to control by centralized agencies. A good example would be Ripple and how its manipulated in price.

Since it is an asset there is no problem to use it as an investment. People see the future in bitcoin and hence bullish on it. Whats the big deal about that having to do with ideology?

Stop reading too much of r/bitcoin

Unfortunately, we are giving first preference to speculation activities instead of focusing on the core elements of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has the ability to optimise the financial infrastructure that can yield high returns as compared to that of speculation and we work in order to improve the utility value of it. I am not against speculation but that should not be the first priority if we really care about this innovation.

Perhaps it's just a phase, new inventions often go through they hype phase when people think how to use them how to get rich. Internet had dotcom bubble, cryptocurrencies have alts and ICO bubble. Eventually speculation will decline and people will become more focused on making money with Bitcoin by doing business instead of just speculating.

So, I don't think that what we're seeing now is strictly against the values of Bitcoin, this is just a natural free market process, and Bitcoin's philosophy is based on free market and game theory.

^ this
but i believe that this is not a phase that goes away. it is more like a cyclical phase. and it happens every now and then with every rally and it is most palpable during the ATH bubbles because by that time there is the most number of people in bitcoin that are in it because of the profit they dreamed of.

The more money that goes into the altcoins (in this case time) the more stubborn shills will become about supporting it. Because their money depends on it and they wont make any returns if others done enter into it. Simple logic.

Shitcoins only show that bitcoin cannot be dethroned as the reigning king of crypto. They will always be second to bitcoin.

That would take a lot of time. If there are bans and regulation put in everyday people become afraid to use their coins. Not in all countries though. Many are relaxed about their rules and accept crypto payments. A good comparison with the domain name bubble I must say.

Bitcoin is now really much more actively used as an investment, but I do not see anything wrong with that. Bitcoin as a currency still continues to evolve and improve, which means we will use it exactly as intended.