Without any of those, non-alcoholic beer seems to fall into a category of drinks like flavored carbonated water. I enjoy drinking those, but it's not likely to be a habit that sticks. If it's in the fridge, I will drink it; if not, I will forget that it exists.
I’d also stress modern non-alcoholic beers are really good taste wise compared with what there used to be.
Quite tasty.
It's also hard to grow that niche. If 20% of people in the bar are ordering NA beer, it would seem to reduce the pressure to be drinking beer at all, or perhaps going to the bar at all.
If we time traveled to the future and you saw 90% of patrons drinking NA beer at the bar, you'd think it was a historical reenactment.
Also, our entire market economy is based on constant upward inflation/growth, and rewards those who grow faster.
They still make a small to medium sized fortune =^)
I like bars and hanging out in them, and it would be awesome to preserve the atmosphere with less and less alcohol consumed.
Which is probably why people don't ask questions when you do it.
I lived through 2 bubble tea hypes in Germany already, and they all just lasted only a year.
Wouldn't have thought that I came back a third time now.