For instance, the steam engine was invented in the early 1700's and it took almost a hundred years for it to be adopted at a transformative scale.
Yes. And think how obvious the benefits of the steam engine were, vs btc, solving a problem that many people in the West don't even think they have, whose most vocal advocates are, to most people, insane, using paradigms that make no intuitive sense.
I'm astounding that things are as advanced as they are, honestly.