And yet the altcoin scammers want to convince everyone that the bitcoin's success is only because it was the "first" one! The reality is that many tried creating similar systems and failed. Bitcoin is successful because it is useful and it uses existing technologies in the right way.
Altcoins are failures because they are useless and have nothing new to offer.
and too many innovations but not done thoroughly, if the altcoin is focused on the goal maybe it can accompany bitcoin, it will be successful and useful like bitcoin
Most altcoin owners see big money forgetting their original purpose. This is what makes altcoins worse in the eyes of investors
I think the real problem with altcoins or majority of them is their short term goal view, not only that even investors of alts also have this view which automatically either put pressure of some of the genuine alts devs or motivate some of them to want to take the easy route.
For instance, an alts project that is launched under 3 months and haven't achieve a x10, x100 or so is considered not performing even while trying to achieve their goal through development.
Btc has passes through stages of development and improvement in years but alts wants to achieve this within a short period.