..., are both modifications of the original.

so that means the original bitcoin is gone (?)

Your not the first one to ponder over questions like that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_TheseusAfter lurking for a while I have found that you get more political and ideological based answers than scientific ones (maybe not in in the more technical oriented subforums). So I suppose you could just make up your own mind on what is an "altcoin", if any, of those two. It is really not more than a label anyway.