What impress me is that, even with bitcoin recovery fulfilling itself, and the return to the previous ATH being possible right now, we still have nocoiners bashing bitcoin, saying it dont have any use because they cant buy bread with it. I dont know why I still get angry with this kind of people, but it seems hard to avoid them.
At gyft.com you can convert Bitcoin to electronic gift cards1 with which you can purchase bread (or pretty much any other common need).
1This is not intended as an endorsement of Gyft.
I get your point that if you want to spend your bitcoins, there are ways to accomplish such spending goals.
Be we all know that there is no immediate need to spend your bitcoins, unless you know that you are dying in a short period of time and you would rather spend them while you are living rather than leaving them to heirs.
Otherwise, there will likely be more spending friendly regulations and means to spend your bitcoins in a few years.... to the extent that you might want to start spending them in the near future.
With the reduction in services of Localbitcoins, I am still hoping that in the near future, some like services are going to evolve. One thing that was nice about local bitcoins was that anywhere in the world you could find someone who would be willing to trade bitcoins - of course, BIGGER cities offered more advertisers.. but at least there were means for peer to peer exchanging of bitcoins and cash.