My personal opinion:
I believe that we are witnessing the setting down of the bitcoin sun, and similar to the sun on the north pole, which does not really sets down in the summer, so that is the Bitcoin sun.
as you said, this is just your "personal opinion" and i disagree with it.
The bitcoin was a great locomotive to the crypto industry, but it's time for it to step aside and let the technology take the lead.
"was"?!!! it is not even 10 years that bitcoin came out. bitcoin is THE new technology that is growing and advancing. i honestly don't know in what world the newest technology like bitcoin which is not yet introduced fully and not to everyone!
with that said nothing is stopping a better project to come and take the first place from bitcoin....
... but nothing has happened so far and will not happen in the foreseeable future.
The blockchain is the underlying technology of bitcoin and is the reason for the vast mainstream interest in this part of tech.
true but don't forget that the "mainstream" which is interested in the tech not bitcoin is disliking the decentralized part of bitcoin that is why they try to separate the two!