If you had this conversation with your friends like few days ago then he must not have any idea about how much potential BTC have now because of ETF getting approved, presidential candidates are using BTC as bait to catch more voters and they are making promises that they will adopt BTC at bigger rates and increase it adoption on global level (I am not considering the big "IF" they will keep their promise or not).

These types of adoptions give clear idea to anyone that not a single ALT can compete with BTC, as it is POW and all of the other POW coins (not tokens) are way too lower then it, even the Hard forks of BTC can't compete with it because they are made like that, there were big conspiracies in hard forks too back then as there was one hard fork which might take over the hype of BTC but proper moderation made it clear moderated the hype of BTC (I know it seems like a big plan but yeah it is based on efforts and no luck here).