Of course nothing compares to bitcoin in the cryptocurrency world and so no matter how many ti mes they are going to fork and release a coin it will still walk in the shadows of bitcoin and will never be bitcoin.
For now you cannot compare anything with bitcoin when it comes to price as well as market adaptation but there will be a time when the network is throttled and the transactions fees are too high to send for an average joe if they are not implementing lightening network or any meaningful update to counter the problems.