Despotic totalitarianism only needs things to continue as they are.

The greatness option requires us plebs to align and keep something like Bitcoin pure (as a start).

We don't even have enough plebs who understand Bitcoin.

Let alone will put some effort into keeping it pure, I don't even know how...

It can be a bit frustrating to be honest.

The two biggest risks for Bitcoin are playing out right now:

Enough people owning their private keys

Poisoning the protocol from the inside.