among other numerous altcoins are among those that have recorded ATH recently even as BTC struggle to hold up the $36,500 resistance
Altcoins are good and profitable for the few who understands them and, much more important, who know
when to sell them.
On the long term most altcoins simply go down and a few better ones may remain profitable against dollar, but, by far, no match for Bitcoin.
So yeah, I agree with the previous answer: are you joking, right?
And even more: if you want to ask about altcoins, please do so in the altcoins-related part of the forum, not here.
Most of those making such presuming statements about bitcoin in comparison with altcoins are making big mistakes most especially if such statements are made out of not considering the long-term potential of both assets, most of those forks are just excited about the short-term pump in price of those coins and while Bitcoin does not react to such fake market dynamism it becomes technically hard for them with low knowledge on the market to make a difference between Bitcoin price movement and altcoin price movement.
For me, altcoins should be taken for short-term market speculations and should only be speculated and gambled on by those who know the mechanism of how the market works amid its high instability and volatility, this and many more are the factors that make altcoins incomparable to Bitcoin.
With Bitcoin one can invest and hold for as long as possible, but if you try such a mechanism with altcoins, most especially those that are listed in the ops, there be no doubt that you end in loss, because by the time you return after a long time, your investment may have turned worthless, because of unrecoverable fall of its market, but same can not happen with bitcoin, so this is what makes the big difference between bitcoin and altcoin.