yes, soon or later bitcoin going to hard fork, this is why i said bitcoin is flexible and can be bend. it will creating king1 and king2.
altcoins are just bitcoin experimenting minions without knowing it.
Nope. If the king splits, there is no king any more. If the king is overtaken, there is no king any more. Bitcoin is king because it was the first. It is also technically the most primitive, but as long as the technical side didn't really matter, and was "good enough", it could maintain its first mover advantage. Now, the technical clunkiness of bitcoin is hurting the projection of its impossible dreams: Alice buying coffee with bitcoin, the illusion that kept bitcoin flying and pushed the greater-fool game to 20 billions.
Alice never bought coffee with bitcoin, but now, the illusion becomes unsustainable.
Once the "King by grace of God" is gone, there is no king by grace of god any more. There's just the "biggest crypto of the moment" notion, and the *correct* idea that a crypto currency is like any other thing: something that has to deliver economical value in the end, or lose to the competition. As long as bitcoin was "King by grace of God", the competition was ridiculed, and Alice was going to buy her coffee with bitcoin. Once the King is gone once, we know that no-one is going to remain king for ever.
Now, monetary beliefs are based upon the irrational belief in eternity. You cannot consider a monetary asset with finite life time (which is not redeemable against something else). You cannot hope that people will have monetary belief in something that is programmed to stop working, say, 50 years from now. Even though in reality it WILL stop 50 years from now. The monetary belief needs the illusion of eternity. Bitcoin's belief is the belief in bitcoin's eternity. The idea itself that the last Satoshi will be mined 140 years from now, helps to feed that illusion. Hence, you have to believe that bitcoin is going to be the King for eternity. If it is only king for 10 years, no other king will be believed.
This will bring down a lot of greater-fool-because-belief-in-eternal-value activity in crypto, down to its real, economic value: economic exchange where fiat cannot go. And that's tiny.