"Bitcoin maximalists tend to dismiss the perspectives of those outside Bitcoin."
This sentence alone serves a valuable impact to say to any maximalist out there. Most them tend to overshadow other alternative coins out there, sometimes they could be very stubborn and do not care about people's capability in investing money are all different.
If we don't have secure job, it rather hard to invest in Bitcoin since most them expecting some returns in a quite short time, therefor there are other alternatice coins beside BTC, eventho most of them are quite more speculative than Bitcoin.
There's nothing wrong with "investing" in a token/altcoin/shitcoin if you truly accept it within yourself that the way those projects are built behind them are probably not sustainable/profitable enough to maintain the value of those coins/tokens. Or the profitability of the protocol/project might not entirely depend on the coin/token.
BUT in the technical side of things, everything else is a shitcoin compared to Bitcoin. It's simply the truth. Although there might be one or two good altcoins/blockchains that may continue to exist for decades with Bitcoin.