Yup. In the past couple of weeks I've had bitcoin come up in discussions with investors in their late 50s who I'm reasonably sure don't actually use e-mail, and with family members both one and two generations older than me. Pretty clear that the price of bitcoin specifically is currently being driven by news about how much the price has gone up in the past (the classical definition of a bubble).
With regards to monero, it offers the privacy a lot of folks seem to assume bitcoin offers but doesn't. I've heard the consumer wallets available for monero are a bit obnoxious GUI wise, but that's hearsay, not first hand knowledge and easily fixed even if true. The nerdy part of me gets really excited about the zero knowledge proofs which underly zcash/zclassic/zencash, but right now using those systems to actually make transactions is a much bigger pain and as a result, they aren't accepted much of anywhere while monero is maybe in the top five in terms of businesses that actually accept it in payment (btc, bcc, ltc, and eth are all clearly more widely accepted).