So... half the reasons are those you mention... subculture. Alien ecosystem, hard to distinguish between geniuses, quacks and con artists, blade runner theme music.
The other half is because crypto is an unregulated, start up financial sector. Stories and headlines about the financial sector tend to also look inscrutable those on the outside. Chase a rabbit down a financial story for real, and it always leads to a "they can't do that! outrageous!"
The fun thing about the gamestop thing, a few months back, was that every person had reached a different outrage. Margin lending by default. That the brokers' business model is selling users' trading data to competitors who frontrun it. That the hedge funds targeted for the short squeeze is the attackers' brokers' investor/partner/customer. That there is a layer of private clearing houses between brokers and markets that regulate the market. That this private regulator can impose unlimited capital requirements on brokers. That it did so, cutting most retail investors out of the market while institutions sorted out their positions. Etc.
Stablecoins are basically an unregulated USD account. Sounds innocuous enough, until you consider that USD is just numbers in regulated USD accounts. Someone is making US dollars, and it's not the issuer of that currency. That's what a totally unregulated bank is.
So... it's only natural to think "scandal" when you hear that some billionaire and a financial demigod minted $60 billion US Dollar denominated money.