What about gold, jewelry and precious stones, cash? They can be stored on one's person or in a secure place. They also have underlying value. They're also actually censorship resistant, compared to cryptocurrencies which have been banned in multiple countries, and any determined state can block at the ISP level.
Don't expect people from non-corrupt-government countries to understand the importance of this though.
I understand the pain point, but I just don’t see crypto as an industry capable of solving it. Just look at how centralized some of these new networks and tokens are.
Until the government shows up and starts breaking your legs