I guess you weren't here during the Wavecrest fiasco. It's the opposite compared to before and these remain only temporary solutions knowing that their activity can suddenly stop being at the mercy of the banks, Visa/Mastercard, and friends. I don't consider such services as a viable solution for the long term.

I read the tweets talking about gift cards. Dude I eat meat and not gift cards, I don't think my butcher is starting to accept that I pay for the meat with amazon vouchers or topping up his phone lol.

Adding the fact, the services are required to abide by the laws and perform KYC verification, how could it be the 'future of Bitcoin' as you say?
Better to keep the fiat system in this case because nothing will be different.

And when I read your posts, I wonder about the motivation behind your comments. Are you in love Polispay?

Am still trying to think of other easy ways to spend btc if not through payment system, because I know btc is not physical, it is digital,  I don't know of any btc card yet where you can spend your btc directly to buy anything without any third party,
Eventually the only available option still fall on the payment system at least for now, and I don't think kyc is such I bad thing, I already use my bank card to buy online often times, so I think this is the only way to spend crypto for now.

No, Mass Adoption is still an event that we could hope for that can pave the way for usage of Bitcoin as a payment option in local shop for normal as is transaction and Please do remember what's the purpose of existence of Bitcoin, The Ideology of being independent from Central banks. I guess, Government and Banks will not allow the Mass Adoption, maybe they will but with regulation which is the KYC, the possible Taxes etc. Which is for me, not aligned with the Bitcoin Ideology and Reason of it's existence. Therefore, Payment Platforms Using VISA or MASTERCARD that supports cryptocurrency exchange or crypto activities is not a future of Bitcoin. It only shows that Mass Adoption is hard to push through without Government and Central Bank keeping an eye and putting all the efforts to control and regulate the future of cryptocurrency as a whole, not only Bitcoin.

Third party job to make it also easier for bitcoin holders to transfer/convert their money into  fiat currency and earn fees with it.

Soon maybe there Will be stores accepting it directly as payment . but we need to understand the volatile price of bitcoin make it harder for merchant  to accept  it as payment. so the only solution  for now is convert it to fiat currency then buy the things you want using fiat money.

maybe for developed countries and internet facilities that support it well, transactions like you said will not be a problem. because obviously it is helped if a bitcoin transaction can do that.
but there are still many on the other side the country still has not received the internet network properly, clearly cannot recognize bitcoin for a transaction.
for me the bitcoin transaction actually makes it difficult because of the familiarity that has been done. it's better to trade with fiat and then do all the transactions.

I know what you mean and that's solely what's align to the idea of Satoshi that Bitcoin should be the thing to be used not the mode of other payment processor. Though there's a big gap of scalability I think it will be solved by the ongoing development that's being done by Bitcoin developers and those problems facing by Bitcoin right now.

Isn't mass adoption Bitcoins ultimate goal?

Those platforms are really good, but just like the second comment here pointed out, they are all at the mercy of the banks and the likes of Visa and MasterCard. The original way that Bitcoin is meant to be used is just sending from your wallet to another wallet, and nothing more.

I have used such platforms and of course I still make use of it now, one of them is BitPay, and that's what I have been using for quite some time. When you create the BitPay wallet you can order for their BitPay card by Visa and when you get it, you can fund it through your wallet, and then make withdrawals through ATM cards. I guess such ATM cards are not available for all the country people hence if new platforms work on that then they could easily get quicker success than other giants in payment processing field.