> But it makes it less attractive as an investment.

For me that's a feature not a bug. The investor cryptobros have thoroughly killed the interest in BTC as a real payment method and made it just a vaporware pyramid scheme. They have accumulated a lot of influence.

Also they corrupted the whole idea behind bitcoin which was independence from the old centralised banking system where others control your money. To guarantee their investments they've rebuilt the whole old system in bitcoin with the exchanges and some regulators even demanding you use them to store your BTC.