This seems to disregard the many people who aren't involved in anything you've described. They stack bitcoin (and use it in different ways as I do) in order to take care of their families with as little interference as possible. Every revolutionary cause has to deal with reality, and almost none succeed. That's an interesting study in itself.

Bitcoin is a powerful idea, and as such, it's going to go many directions as revolutionary causes often do. As a powerful idea that works remarkably well technically, it has legs, regardless of the personalities and divergent actions they take.

The revolution was never going to go in a straight line, and it was always going to get captured in certain ways (it's people afterall).

I think, though, regardless of all the things you described above, the revolution will go forward because bitcoin actually works for people like me, the sort of average guy looking to take care of his family and sees that the fiat system cannot provide those long-term values I require to do so.

This might very well be me being naive, but I've been in since just after the block-size war, and bitcoin has repeatedly liberated me from the cuffs the system tried to place on me.