Even though you JayJuanGee have put some light in differentiating bitcoin from every other shitcoins, I will love to make some additions to what bitcoin is.
Perhaps, lots of people certainly do not get the facts about bitcoin as a leader in its own world and differentiating it from other cryptocurrencies (shitcoins) seems hard for some people, just as you JayJuanGee have said, that bitcoin is not just a leader for a mere sake of being a leader but it has brought something to the table, some people may not get your point even though its very clear but i will have the stress to say that bitcoin is a paradigm and a paradigm that has shifted our thinking from just a mere circulation of fiat to a digital currency/gold as some call it, that doesn't just keep the value of your assets but also increases its values in a long term.
Bitcoin as a paradigm has brought to the table the opportunity which every other shitcoins has seized to be in existence even though we might not going to be seeing most of them in few years. Having to put bitcoin in the category of all those short term existence coins would not make any sense which is a more reason why we should know the true nature and facts about bitcoin to differentiate it from mere scams that pose to be a coin of value and/or seeking attention for its purpose of scam deceiving some people with an unrealistic point that its an improvement of bitcoin the original, which we all know that bitcoin has no improvement outside it's protocol. It's even more right and/or correct to liken bitcoin to the master piece of cryptography and every shitcoins to be a copy which is not the original and can never be the original than to put bitcoin the the same category with those shitty coins.
I don't really disagree with anything you said - yet at the same time, part of the reason that any shitcoin or any other technology to really contribute in a way to throw bitcoin out of its place has to be 10x better, since bitcoin invented something (or discovered) in such a way that such a thing had not been possible previously, and in that case the paradigm had been shifted by a new thing being possible that had previously not been possible, which is that bitcoin brought forth a system of transferring both information and value at the same time with ways of verifying it in a way that there was no way to copy the value.. and so yes solving the double spend problem in several quite ingenious ways.. and establishing itself as a protocol layer kind of a change in which other systems can build upon it, yet if there were a desire to actually change the protocol, then such change would be required to be 10x better in order to inspire moving from bitcoin to the new protocol... no shitcoins have shown themselves even close to being able to inspire moving over to them from bitcoin.
And I don't even see such changes happening around bitcoin, no matter how many times people keep trying to see if they can bring about such improvements. There are some inventions/creations that are deemed to be perfect, and till eternity they will remain vital to humanity without even the need to go through any modification. And any attempt to remodify them will always be fruitless. For example since creation till now has there been any attempts to remodify the sun from it original form? I don't think there has been, because it is perfect in it's original form. This is how perfect bitcoin is, so any attempt to remodify into something else won't every work. Bitcoin is a perfect invention and has left no room for remodification. Any attempt will always end in failure.