I am active again after a while and a lot has changed but the apathy of tier two altcoins remains same and it's absolute sham because most of the tier two altcoins have hit rockbottom and to a point of no return and some trusted coins like LUNA, FTX, Celsius, and BlockFI etc where people have lost their life long savings and on the other hand we have tokens like Solano, XRP, XLM, BNB, ADA and Matic who are heading on path of recovery.
How do you judge altcoin tier?
I believe he judge the altcoin tier base on the community support level and foundation of the altcoin creation. If you look at most of the altcoin he listed some emulate the concept used to create Ethereum (example SOL, Matic) while some did have get community support base on it decentralization or core fundamental creation.
Regarding failed coins you mentioned, there is one thing in common that is those were into finance stuff (Luna on it's own was good chain but pegging ust to it, destroyed it) while the survivors are into pure blockchain stuff (except bnb, which is related to binance, cz resigning affected it).
No, every crypto is on a good chain when it havent reach it's max usage. ETH was once sees as scalable crypto when it havent reach it max usage. For Luna and UST which is now USTC if we looking into the concept and utility of the project you'll there's no way it will survive in the long run.