In reading through this thread, some similar kinds of ideas passed through my head in terms of considering how much value comes from making some of the subcategorizations of the various kinds of shitcoins and the various kinds of ways to scam people in various kinds of ways that largely amount to various kinds of affinity scams on bitcoin that either make comparisons or contrasts to bitcoin, whereby bitcoin is adding most of the value - while at the same time, the various shitcoins sometimes can end up serving as real world laboratories in order that if they do happen to come up with something that might work in bitcoin and provide value in bitcoin, then it could be added into bitcoin at the base layer or at a second or third layer.
Bitcoin is not the first cryptocurrency but the first successful one so it is a favorite target to attack by people who are from governments or hate blockchain and cryptocurrency. Altcoins are mainly created after Bitcoin because only a couple of cryptocurrency before Bitcoin like Ecash, Hashcash, B-money and Bit Gold.
Bitcoin Prehistory.
Subcategorizations on Coinmarketcap or Coingecko only were created by those market cap websites since the 2020 - 2021 bull run. Before that, they don't have subcategorizations among altcoins.
Coinmarketcap snapshot in Jan 2020 did not have subcategorizations:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200101023844/https://coinmarketcap.com/Coingecko snapshot in April 2020 did not have subcategorizations:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200125064545/https://www.coingecko.com/en