Is the future price for Bitcoin the main metric of success? Price only measures how much someone is willing to pay, not if the commodity has any value or effect

Is the future price for Bitcoin the main metric of success? Price only measures how much someone is willing to pay, not if the commodity has any value or effects any positive change. Baseball cards and comic books sometimes sell for crazy prices, but I would think someone foolish for going all-in on speculative investments. Maybe us yuppie elites dismiss Bitcoin because the ecosystem is rife with hucksters and fraud and crime. Or maybe we still remember the Beanie Baby maximalists and how that turned out.