Engineers who have worked on larger projects like video codecs, mainframes, or the web itself all see protocols like bitcoin is something that must be scaled in layers. The nature of Blockchains in general is to fight against scaling so bitcoin's a natural fit.

I realize satoshi never sold anyone on the idea of waiting a couple of decades and using some other software that only stores value on his software, but that's what is practical and likely to work. We've gotten used to it (bitcoiners) and normies won't have to think about it when the wallets on layers 2 & 3 are finally where they should be. They'll just work and fees will be minimal.