But just that people are ignorant of many things, bitcoin was created to make peer to peer transaction possible and also a decentralized means of exchange but most people nowadays are going for custodial wallets and exchanges not minding their privacy. It was a great work done by Satoshi and other developer involved but most people are fools of scam and ignorant of privacy invasion. They are relying on custodial wallets and exchanges instead to have the knowledge about bitcoin and how to have the privacy needed.

Why most of them still use a custodial wallets because their don't want to go through the stress of developing their own wallet that can work with their payment gateway that is why they are relying on exchanges such as counbase.

Exactly. You have learned the gateway drug to a world unknown to us. Never before where we free of geo-political bs in terms of tyranny with local currencies. Now their is an opt-out. And it is wonderful. Satoshi truly was a visionary.

The vision behind bitcoin creation is for freedom and financial independence, Satoshi idea was how to eradicate the tyranny of government and the hold of the Central bank on the financial life of the citizens.

It's generally hard for me to send money or recieve money overseas since my family and my boyfriend both are living in different countries as well. So from my personal experience, I usually try and use Bitcoins as a method of payment or as a method of transfer if I have to. The reasons are as follows :
1. It's takes less time as compared to other international bank transfers
2. You don't have to pay excessive fee
3. You can also do lightning, transactions which might be instant or even choose priority one's from the segWit.
4. You don't need any third parties and you don't have to pay exchange rates of the banks as well

It generally takes like 3 hours for a normal transaction and when we are talking about using banks, it would generally take around 2-3 days, sometimes it will bounce back as well which is quite annoying n

People and corporate networks are used to the custodial wallet usage for different reasons. For that reason the companies and individuals find it difficult to move to a decentralised usage in a short time. With centralized/third party service, if there arises an issue the support team will be questioned and the issue gets solved. Maybe the better understanding will lead people towards the decentralised network.

These merchants accepts bitcoin payments through these payments processors who convert them directly to the legal cash of their country and it's ok as these traders need cash to run the business and Bitcoin is not widely accepted at the moment but they accept to have more customer base as this is the latest trends and both the parties are satisfied like customer pays with btc and the vendor gets fiat for the same.But they can also hold btc in their wallet and earn more profits over it as the main aim of btc is payment processing apart from asset and they don't need to fear it and hold it instead but with time they might become aware about it.

Rest you have nice avatar for you which shows Btc at discount for December and those who can understand it will have bright future ahead.These discounts will be rare to see when you will be buying sats only with few dollars.

to add to this,
many businesses want to be custodial partner hubs. getting users to lock funds up into co-signed contracts where the user requires the consent and signature of their contracted partner to authorise fund movements.
one step down from that. they then want to use an alternative networks that has no blockchain or consensus to allow micropayments, which by their very nature does not have the same security as blockchains.

these naive users still want to pretend its "bitcoin" even when its a different network, a non blockchain network and where the units of measure are not even understood by the bitcoin network.

try to be very risk aware and cautious of people that promote these other networks as 'bitcoin'. and try to correct such people when they overhype their non blockchain offerings as 'bitcoin'

If you're referring to the lightning network, then you'll find me disagreed.

The network may be different, but the units are the same. Yes, beyond the 1 sat, the bitcoin network does not understand and it's foolish to say that you transact bitcoins (since it's only a promise), but prior that, it's real bitcoins. You transfer signed transactions that are normally accepted by the bitcoin network and, alongside, partake in a game theory where you're discouraged to broadcast any other than the latest transaction that is made.

The anonymous nature of bitcoin is the main reason why I fall more in love with it. You can store up your whole assets in the comfort of your home without involving or letting anyone know. Bitcoin is a transaction made easy globally(not widely accepted anyway) with a tap of your finger(gadget).
Am beginning to like the fact that people are gradually understanding the benefits of using digital currency in their daily lives