Litecoin is faster, monero is more private, ETH has smart contracts and there are much more altcoin with much more features, even Bitcoin Cash is faster than Bitcoin, but BTC keeps rising much faster.
Don't you think it's just because of the name?
Actually its not about then, its all about the platform because investors are looking at every plans of the ico's and they are trying to determine if the ico will really succeed in the future and that's how they are getting investors for good delivery of their platform.