I think both sides have point here. Cash back rewards can introduce Bitcoin to people who might never consider buying it themselves. However, real adoption depends on what happens after the incentives disappear. If people become curious enough to learn how bitcoin works and take control of their own funds, then these reward programs could be a useful starting point rather than just a marketing strategy.

Do you think we ever get to a time where physical Bitcoin will be issued like the physical bank notes, I have never imagined that happening and such will definitely not happen.
The concept of rewarding eligible customer who make eligible purchases made with Square Credit Card get Bitcoin in sats as rewards mechanism, so is not actually about issuing Bitcoin in cards but yeah you get some sats accumulation on you account that can be converted, still marked as work in progress.

Banks fit the description of loan sharks very well.  The customer who borrows money from Banks is going to have their mind busy with paying back the loan as it keeps adding up to a point where they have to do buy backs and such to feel like they can continue to afford paying back their debt.  The Bitcoin part is simply bait, it will not make them financially independent in any way.  It works exactly like bait works on a fish.

Some people just need a trigger that brings them into the bitcoin space and you find out that they stand to become a strong bitcoin enthusiast than most of the people that came in organically. Sometimes, the small marketing strategy might be the season why some might come to see the different advantage of holding bitcoin and choose to get at it.

During the Airdrop hunting season, a lot of people came in through mining of some random coin and later stayed because they found something that has a lasting value than the coin they were running at. that can still be the case for those joining the bitcoin niche just because they got it as an incentive through a credit card company

Just a marketing strategy? Wow!
Looking at the thorns of paragraph from the and reading through, i was hoping on where this will get us but life doesn’t really care about our expectations. But that’s by the way.

Personally, I don’t think anything will ever bit real adoption, there’s no point enforcing this on people, nor making them like it. If an individual is curious enough to know how it works should go do his research to know if it’s something they really want to give a chance before moving on to adoption. It should still remain a matter of choice.

medium may ironically attract more scams, because imagine good numbers of people having what they know nothing about, because they just hop in because the crowd are there. This is a digital asset, many are yet to get acquainted with technology. So owning is via this medium may even leave the masses more vulnerable.

It’s okay to advocate but it’s better done right.