That is, bitcoin doesn't yet justify its own existence. A new one will replace it, but hardly out of necessity, rather simply because it is trivial to do so. If its existence was suddenly erased, few systems would be affected (mostly layer 1 actors, those directly associated with bitcoin: miners, coin devs, a few startups, etc) and most corrected quite quickly. there's not yet a true dependency on cryptocoins or blockchaind; the game is the almost exactly the same as it was with or without the bitcoin paper.

Its not yet changed.

But it won’t vanish. I’m still waiting. If you can make bitcoin vanish I’d give you some credibility. Until then you’re amongst a sea of journalists declaring the death of crypto. I’m waiting for it and I mean that sincerely. Yet here we are.

The phrase "paradigm shift" seems to be thrown around quite a bit ;)