I feel that their available options, coupled with the economic issues brought about by COVID-19 leave a need that Bitcoin addresses.
100% agreed. My only complain is that there are many other cryptocurrency that do the exact same thing much faster with less fees. https://www.dash.org and https://pivx.org are great examples for this. BTC can still gain against rampant money printing of central bankers. These better altcoins will eventually surpass BTC and might even push BTC out of Top 100 coins by the next decade or so.