Bitcoin is not inevitably ticking towards success.
Bitcoin is inevitably ticking towards success or disaster.
The block reward is programmed to run out. Either bitcoin will be widely used by then or it will cease to exist.
It's on us to educate, to build, and to use bitcoin.
"In a few decades when the reward gets too small, the transaction fee will become the main compensation for [mining] nodes. Iām sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume."
ā Satoshi Nakamoto