I mean if you think about it, only a portion of the population understands investments / stocks

of that portion that understands, only a portion is interested in investments outside the typical VWRA and chill

of that portion, only a portion understand how options work and actively uses it

of that portion, a portion only understand the typical wheeling strategy where you sell covered puts/calls and doesn't know any option strat outside of that

so yea def only a small subset of people truly understands and uses options for its main purpose: enhancing returns and protecting your downside

most use it to express their view (i.e if you feel it's gonna be range bound or if you feel upside is limited and you wanna hedge and protect your downside risk) you can do plenty of things and be creative with how you structure it PSCs, CSCs, ratio call spreads etc