So did I. Why I specified "long term" shitcoiners. Some people experience heroes' journey. People who stay shitcoiners long term willingly choose zerosum games over a positive sum winning strategy. They often justify it as: "I know bitcoin is the money and can make the world better, but people are still gonna pump me 10x if I can just hold this bag of shit and convince other people it's worth something."

The most rabid Bitcoin maximalists are those that started out as (rightfully burnt) shitcoiners. Funny enough those type of people have never had the time to develop the skill to tell apart actually valuable projects like Monero from the rest. It's a mindset issue. What made you discover cryptos late in 2017 is not fundamentals but fiat greed. After their burn they adjusted strategies to its opposite, hoping that that will be the obvious right answer. You can not fix a mindset with a new strategy. You can ignore people like me all you want. I know plenty of OGs from early on. It's super rare to find a maxi. Why? Because maximalism was a psyop. When Austrian economics tells you about the importance of currency competition and you think one coin to rule them all is the natural outcome, all this tells us is that you still have not understood a thing.

I was a shitcoiner long before you even heard about Bitcoin. Back in the day there was no hate between projects (except for Ripple). This started with the block size war and rightfully escalated during the ICO craze which was "crypto" looking for a new meaning after Bitcoin de-adopton started in early 2017 with the delistings of Microsoft, Steam, Expedia,....