The debate still carries on regarding BTC and it's future. In all honesty I don't foresee the matter being settled anytime soon, and fully expect more division to happen. In other words, more forks, more slandering, etc. That being said, change is something inevitable, and even though there are some that hold on to the white paper with white knuckles, it's somewhat myopic to believe this particular idea, bitcoin, will remain "pure" so to speak.
Pragmatic
The idea that we will one day all use BTC to pay for things, to buy and sell goods peer to peer is somewhat Utopian. Of course, I'm not advocating that we should not strive for this or that I don't want it to be this way, but it seems to me that the market is speaking, and we would be fools not to listen.
Of course this could change, but today, BTC hodlers are investors that use Bitcoin as digital gold. I don't particularly know of many users who transact using Bitcoin, and honestly I can't really blame them. The volatility of the asset, and the pumps still to come, make it somewhat stupid to spend BTC to buy coffee, specially for retail investors who don't have ways of generating, if you will, more Bitcoin.
We can't expect that that all retail users of cryptocurrencies become traders, and through this means "make gains" to spend them in the emerging new commerce. Just writing this down, at least in my view, seems to be enough to make a case against this very idea.
I could use my debit card to buy myself a soda, or I could go into my app, buy some BTC, pay the fees for this very transaction, then buy the soda, and depending on if I'm using LN or not, wait for confirmations for 10 minutes or more.
Of course, I'm sure someone would point out that another version of BTC, another fork, is more convenient, but the underlying issue, the inconvenience is still there. Someone spending his/hers only BCH to buy a sandwich is still opting to "exit" their position, and they may not want to.
In the future
I'm sure things will be different, I'm sure enough jobs will have payrolls that use some sort of cryptocurrency and enough shops and businesses who have infrastructures that make it painless to use them. But, we might be years away from such a thing and it's important we don't lose sight of reality too.
Where do we stand today? Well, not particularly in the beginning, but truthfully we might as well be. This is why it's somewhat unproductive to not be pragmatic about our efforts.