I disagree with the notion that the outside world has no idea what's going on. They certainly don't know the nuances of what we are arguing about. All they see is the headline saying things like "Bitcoin promotes CSAM" or "Bitcoin founder found in Epstein files" or other similar rage bait type headlines. The world is in fact watching.
Just the other day, Bitcoin came up in conversation with some normie aquaintences. One of the first things they said was, I heard the bitcoin founder guy was a pedophile and theres kiddie porm shared on bitcoin... they don't differentiate between the various arguments. They take every single headline and attribute it to Bitcoin. Not core, not knots, not bip110. They simply lump all the headlines in and count it all as crypto (maybe a fee discerning can identify Bitcoin as being dofferent).
That said, fair point that here on nostr its an echo chamber of an echo chamber... but most people opining are doing so outside of just nostr. Its public facing and its all bad PR.
