You are totally right. Newbies need to know between Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. We can call any digital currency out there to be a cryptocurrency and by how they perform, they are literally not match to Bitcoin. Bitcoin does wonders, while some so called cryptocurrencies make the digital currency system sucks. Many projects are rug pull, scams, pump and dump, in general we called them shitcoins. And this have made many lose interest in Bitcoin too, tagging them to be all the same. This is the main reason why Bitcoin should not be categorized under cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is Bitcoin so let that sink in.
Yea, Bitcoin is too good to be linked or classified as cryptocurrency as they call it, for me I think Bitcoin stand on its own on a solid ground, Bitcoin do not only wonders, it goes beyond that, why people still trust the system till this moment is because of Bitcoin, many investors would've have abandone anything relating to digital asset if Bitcoin was no where to be found and for that reason reason Bitcoin is worth every penny we invest in it, there's one advertisement they do on our local TV station those days about paints, the buyer we be like am looking for saclux paint and the seller will say I don't have it but there's another one that looks like it, the buyer will say if it not saclux paint am not buying, so my advise to newbies is that Bitcoin has no rival, it can only be Bitcoin, if it is not Bitcoin, no other one like Bitcoin, it is as simple as that.