The use of cash or cheques is just the way it is. If one of my clients broached the subject of paying by another means then I would consider it, but I am normally paid at the clients home when I deliver, and have installed, a piece of work.
I am well aware that I can pay the cheque/cash into another bank and, thankfully, can do so quite easily where I live but you seemed to be under the impression that internet banking solved everyone's need to deal with a bank in person and I was just showing that it doesn't.
When I was working in the restoration field the antique dealers I dealt with seemed to assume everyone was part of the black economy and would have cringed if I had asked for anything but cash. It's all a case of horses for courses but the banks are trying to reduce the number of options we have access to.