I don't have loyalty to any specific crypto project. I have loyalty to values:

-Permissionlessness

-Decentralization

-Censorship resistance

-Privacy

-Accessibility

I use whatever lets me best transact financially with those values, and promote what's working towards them. Short-term, I use what works for those goals. Long-term, I look at "insurance policy" metrics that help guarantee that experience holds long-term:

-Explicit governance

-Self-funding

-L1 scaling

-Security

-Advanced privacy

Use what works today, but prefer with these values. For example, Litecoin works fantastic for short-term today. But long-term, I don't trust its scalability plan, sustainable long-term development, governance process, privacy commitment, or even security. I'll happily use it, but where there's an option I prefer others.

This is what keeps me using Dash so heavily after all these years. It works today for everything I need from money purposes as outlined above. Also is top-notch in most of the long-term values, so I can be sure it'll always work as it did before.

Zcash is another one. I can use it for only a few things today, and I'm not as confident in its governance process, but its privacy today is second to none. And because of its self-funding, it's clear its privacy offering will continue to be industry-leading.

I've seen a lot in my decade-plus in crypto. It's hard to know which projects to focus on. I recommend the short-term long-term principle-based strategy outlined above. Keeps you focused, but adaptable to change.