You nailed it. Bitcoin is not some kind of panacea that will make everyone rich. It's just money that cannot be fucked with by central bankers, governments, dictators or anyone else for that matter.
That's it.
That's it.
Even if they did, once the Internet was back up and running what would stop the Bitcoin network from continuing where it left off?
There's thousands of people around the world running their own Bitcoin nodes, many also protected behind Tor [1]. In what realistic way could governments shut it down globally?
They could go for centralised custodial businesses like the exchanges, but that doesn't stop the Bitcoin network itself. Also there are decentralised exchanges like Bisq that can't be shutdown.
"Yes (you will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography.), but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years.
Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own." — Satoshi Nakamoto
"A lot of people automatically dismiss e-currency as a lost cause because of all the companies that failed since the 1990’s. I hope it’s obvious it was only the centrally controlled nature of those systems that doomed them. I think this is the first time we’re trying a decentralized, non-trust-based system." — Satoshi Nakamoto
It also doesn't really matter if the person fucking with a resource is a state or an extremely rich individual or a company, except for ideological reasons. Diamonds (even natural ones) are fairly abundant and largely worthless but that doesn't stop De Beers from selling them at ridiculously inflated prices because they hold enough of a monopoly to be able to create artificial scarcity (and spend a lot of money on marketing to distinguish their "product" from the cheaper but higher quality artificial alternative).
That crypto currencies aren't subject to the power hierarchies of the institutions you name in the exact same way as state-backed currencies doesn't mean they are not impacted by real world power hierarchies at all -- nor at least less so. Literally the only thing guaranteeing the "value" of anything is (state) violence. The reason you can charge ten bucks for a fancy cup of coffee is that if I drink without paying, you can call the cops.