I think we disrespected and ignored satoshi when all the funding, efforts etc. went to fedimint, cashu etc.

Not just satoshi but all the people who discussed ecash without trusted third parties before bitcoin on mailing lists. We are just slaves for investors at this moment and there are very few transactions settling payments on bitcoin.

It's a speculative asset that everyone enjoys when price goes up and not the same as when I started researching bitcoin in 2015.

I can assure you all the conferences in US do not affect normal people in this part of world. Asia still prefers other things for payments and I don't know who are you scaling for.