Is PayPal still around simply because, as one of the earliest and one of the biggest payment facilitators on the Internet, it&#x27;s become ubiquitous enough to not have to worry about being displaced? I cannot for the life of me understand how it&#x27;s still a thing since every week there&#x27;s yet another story of &quot;PayPay did Shady Thing that a bank couldn&#x27;t do and now I have no money and no way to get my money back.&quot;<p><i>Why is PayPal not dead?</i> In all my research I have never been able to come up with a good answer to that question.<p>[<i>edited to add</i>] Aside from consumer ignorance of other options, that is.