This article is insightful. I do think it misses a key point: just because long running shitcoins provide functionality that hasn’t been built on bitcoin doesn’t mean much…even if ascribed a high value by the market.
A lot of stupid ideas can make an awful lot of money…some for longer than others.
Remember, everyone’s a scammer, but not everyone realizes it.
I would say maximalism is the end state of mind of a rigorous game theoretic technical analysis of blockchains, even if it eschews as “worthless” projects that clearly have market value, such as Ethereum.