LOL

it has to do with the ethos of its origins, reading the short white paper of Satoshi Nakamoto triggered a lot of people to create a movement and therefore a tribe or as you call it, a cult. Despite it fails at being the p2p money for the people it became the best in class store of value.

logically, a strong tribe evolves and expands, Bitcoin has done a very good job helped by being the first to market,

other crypto are doing a decent job and expanding, ironically, the more toxic the tribe is the more chances it has to survive and succeed, look at the called XRP army, the founders dump on them millions periodically to maintain their business, the tribe is still there defending the project and is thriving, many other examples as Litecoin, the founder dumped all of it publicly and still the tribe is loyal to the project, I believe ADA has a similar tribe despite it has performed poorly, still a strong follow and the newly Pulsechain network with a following growing despite of some weird scandals, that tribe seems to be quite toxic and united as XRP or Bitcoin...