Old school is not always bad, there is this settled understanding in eth/btc pair that makes sure that people understand it because it has been like that for a long time. With this merger and other business it may look like it's corrupted a bit, but the understanding is still there, which is btc going up first, eth going up because of that but the pair lowering, and then when btc stops eth starting to go up because of that because people going into alts and ETH is a big part of that world.
So, basically it is a sorting type of deal, you first get into btc, then into eth and the pair is making you double profit that way, if you are at btc first then at eth, you could end up with more of them both at the same time when it's all done, but this requires bull market of course.
Yeah true, but at the same time people are looking into newer stuff so that they could make a bit of a profit, that's a lot better for them if they could just enable some extra income way and that is why they are looking for bigger pairs. Not bigger in size, but bigger in potential, something you have never heard of vs bitcoin pair for example, or it could be in busd or usdt whatever.
Some small cap with like 100k volume, that would be the way. Why? Because one whale would mean they could profit like never before. I am not saying ETH/BTC pair is bad, all I am saying is that it's not the best ever and we shouldn't really compare it that way neither.