Anyone who held Monero past 5 years would be wealthier than someone who held equivalent amount of Bitcoin. Monero's doing fine price wise.
More importantly, Bitcoin culture's obsession with NGU has been damaging to the tech and holding Bitcoin back on the p2p money front. Monero's entire focus is driven by that focus, not Wall Street adoption and acceptance by bankers and hedge funds. Zoom out and observe where this is heading, it's pretty easy to see when you're not blinded by laser eyes.
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Price is not the metric. Adoption is.
You specifically said you don't want to see people poor. That is a comment on price, not adoption.
On adoption: Monero dominates Bitcoin when both are accepted, and Monero's adoption as p2p money is trending positively (see xmrbazaar. In fact you can even see positive trends on here of people wanting to send XMR via payment targets and negative trends on BTC zaps).