If the success of something is dependent on the actions of normies, then it will never succeed. And that also goes for monero. Sorry but no adoption means unstable price and that fucks its medium of exchange prospects. And if mass adoption does happen, monero can’t scale. So it’ll have to do some type of fork or something. At that point, why wouldn’t evil billionaires start donating tons of money to monero developers? If Blackrock invested in monero, would you start waving the white flag for monero too? Anything that is likely to succeed will bring in the likes of Blackrock. It’s inevitable.