No. The average person (or even crypto user) doesn’t know anything about the difference between consensus algorithms and that is certainly not stopping growth.

No. The average person (or even crypto user) doesn’t know anything about the difference between consensus algorithms and that is certainly not stopping growth. Also Bitcoin will 100% not remove proof of work ever. The overwhelming majority of node operators would not agree to that, ever. It goes against the ethos of Bitcoin. Proof of work is part of the social contract, right up there with 21 million hard cap and users running their own nodes.