Crypto space is full of "developers" who just make millions off their pet shitcoin with no intention to actually improving anything. So, it's a no-brainer to be a Bitcoin maximalist, when the whole field is so bad.


Privacy is one of a few things that are indeed improved by alts. Still, many privacycoins have problems of their own.

Faster confirmations? There's no such things, 1 Bitcoin confirmation is not the same as 1 shitcoin confirmation. 1 Bitcoin confirmation is already extremely unlikely to be reversed. Meanwhile alts get successfully 51% attacked on a regular basis.

Useful PoW? If it's useful, it's centralized, and you can't have a reliable financial peer-to-peer system that has trusted third parties in its protocol.

Smart contracts - still not used in real world.