I am surprised that they don't go beyond the top 10 coins in market cap to find hidden gems.
They haven't proven anything yet. In this space hidden gems can just as easily become hidden dump holes since utility doesn't matter. I know enough coins with pretty decent utility that actually deserve to be up higher in the overall list, but they don't get any serious exposure because the hype only concerns a few top coins. What other than the listed coins have proven to be worthwhile according to you? In my opinion Monero has been decent, Byteball and Digibyte. These coins however won't ever be able to climb up the crypto ladder due to how this space works. Bitcoin and Ethereum will probably be the only main coins....
I reckon Monero is more than
decent. It might be the cryptocoin that has learned from bitcoin's past mistakes and might show that their way might be the right way. Which are onchain private transactions, Asic resistance and no miner
signaling before forks.
The purpose of signaling in bitcoin has been abused by miners by making it a political tool, instead of a tool for showing readiness to fork.