I agree with what you're saying. But I think there is a certain level of risk where the "average person" can experience negative effects. Society, by definition, is comprised of average people. Until something is likely affect them, they don't care much about it.

In my personal experience this applies to politics, climate change, trust in institutions and many other "big" concepts. People I know tend to be fully focused on their families, their careers and their hobbies. Anything that won't materially impact one of those things is trivia.

This seems to be true of most humans, throughout history. I don't see mass adoption of any system that solves the problem of trust until regular violations of that trust impact the median citizen.