Crypto is not about pumping and dumping on other crypto holders, crypto is about taking value away from fiat and returning it to the people. Cryptos distrabution network doesn't trust anything and trust is never required. In fiat currency, trust is an integral part of the system and if trust is lost it collapses.
I agree with your point about crypto itself, but to a large segment of people in the general crypto-community right now crypto is about taking as much value as you can back to fiat, crypto be damned. There is so much potential in crypto when it takes hold in the world if we can overcome that.