"They tried to break free but it didn't work".

You know we call that a failure, right? You're the one attaching emotion to it. Did it succeed? No. Thus it failed.

It's not semantics. It's basically logic. Maybe don't try and be a sophist. I never said it couldn't be tried again. In fact I said quite the opposite: you need to see this as a failure, address why, and make changes before trying again. But you're just stuck on the word "failure" and your own preconceptions. No one thinks this was a test of "just Bitcoin". The dark markets already tested Bitcoin thoroughly over a decade ago. This was a test of real world application of Bitcoin as a a government backed currency in the hopes of avoiding outside influence. Outside influence came in and managed to remove Bitcoin - the exact thing that was trying to be proved it was immune to.

But cope harder if it helps you sleep at night.