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One of the reasons there are fees for international payments is to comply with the legal requirements set up by governments to monitor and control such transactions.

The cost of transferring FX wholesale is near zero. If a bitcoin based processor implements the controls, the costs will be the same as a regular payment provider.

So bitcoin can only become cheaper than tradition payments if you bypass the legally required controls.

While you're not wrong, the fees for international payments vary wildly depending on how you do it, which service or bank you use, how much you transfer etc. Which makes it hard to sell the "its about governance" line for justifying those fees.

dollar for dollar, traditional money transfer companies are faster and cheaper. unless the user is trying to conceal the source of funds or is evading capital controls.

Yes, as long as you don't want to convert your crypto currency into fiat currency at either end.

You could claim the blockchain will transform the economy some day, but to claim it has is plainly false. It's still a niche system, and Bitcoin's seeing rapidly rising transaction fees (https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...) because of the block size issue right now.