This is a nice tech demo but not of any practical significance.
Besides, you can earn currency from just seeding the torrent- presumably there would be a way to download some initial torrents for free and then you can contribute to the network directly without needing to get a wallet or set anything up.
It’s on the web as well, so it could be as seamless as YouTube, only you’d have a small currency counter that goes up if you leave the tab open, and you can either spend that currency by downloading or withdraw it by selling it to other users who would rather pay than seed.
A few years ago transactions were limited to 15 transactions per second, today there are multiple ways to achieve thousands of transactions per second[1]. A few years ago privacy didn't exist and now there are multiple ways to achieve privacy [2][3]. A few years ago end users had to remember long complicated strings to send a transfer or to restore their wallets and now there are easy ways to transfer to human readable names [4] and social wallet recovery [5] if you lose your funds or make a mistake. Argent alone is a huge increase in usability for end users.
There are more but if you even look at these metrics then things are improving at a great clip. Faster than the early web even.
[1] https://medium.com/matter-labs/evaluating-ethereum-l2-scalin... [2] https://tornado.cash/ [3] https://www.aztecprotocol.com/ [4] https://ens.domains/ [5] https://www.argent.xyz/