Now, if altcoins were all that great as bitcoin why tell anyone to tread on lightly with them. It's because altcoins are a red zone investment points when we talk about cryptocurrencies. We don't hear people talk about it warn about treading lightly with bitcoin and this and others are the reasons why bitcoin maximalists would and have always stood against altcoins because it triggers bad name to bitcoin as a cryptocurrency than it does help in building new entrants trust into crypto.
In my opinion, the name of cryptocurrency has not been bad for such altcoins. In fact, various scan websites are making it bad. Because various scam websites choose cryptocurrency as their payment method. And when those websites scam, our cryptocurrency gets a bad name. That does not mean that cryptocurrency is a scam. But no matter where or in which coin we invest, we must research it well and invest.