Sometimes, we may not have to look at the present performance of a coin, but the long term effect and implication upon any decision we make, that is why in choosing between which coin to go for, we are not expected to go by the hypes created, instead the way they have been of a value to the general world and how they can serves a long and lifetime utility value, its a shame that some are still seeing other cryptocurrency having prospects than what bitcoin stand to give, when some of them may fail to perform for a long, time, now we are in the bitcoin season, i don't expect any other decision other than bitcoin.
You are right on hypes or FOMO but all coin in the list are not new either and prolly has a bright future ahead too. Maybe there is something in the works with XRP that people see, so they now bag more of it.
As for ETH, I heard there is another upgrade on it last time, so maybe it is also worthy to add more of it. You are still correct that we must not also forget BTC. Not only that it was the oldest but all must see how it is performing lately. The weakest in the poll is Solana but I too saw a thread about it last time, that it might have a comeback after the launch of pumpfun token, as some meme coins under it is also making a comeback.