My belief is that there can be no altcoin that can match Bitcoin, because of the non-technical, organic nature of Bitcoin.

I guess I can understand utility in an altcoin. This has been demonstrated, notably in true privacy coins (not the fake new ones that have public and private txns), or even networks that provide convenient stablecoin use in countries with extremely volatile currencies.

This probably disqualifies me as a maxi, but I don't really care about that label since I'm probably already a shitcoiner to them for working at an exchange for many years.

To me, a shitcoin is a shitcoin from the start and there is probably no going back. Pre-mining, non-PoW, VC incubation, centralization, marketing campaigns, immediate exchange on-boarding, etc.

All these are indicators of a shitcoin and redemption seems unlikely unless we are all to be taken for fools.