Lol you are reading too much into what they post. And in the end coin desk doesn't determine the fate of Bitcoin....the free market does.
Coindesk feeds Kool-Aid to the Kool-Aid merchants and keeps their hopes alive, leaving them holding the bag, as everyone else bails out.
If Bitcoin were dead, then cryptocurrency won't survive.
Technically Bitcoin and other bitcoin 2.0s are the same with the same basic technologies: BlockChain,Decentralized/Anonymous design...2.0 is just a Bitcoin-Improved version, and what most people know about cryptocurrency is only Bitcoin , most of them don't even know what is NextCoin, Ethereum....
Dunno about that.
Bitcoin is already:
Far too slow for transactions to clear
Far too energy intensive to mine and thus far too expensive for the p2p network to be maintained
Overpriced and thus, overmined in relation to adoption
If it turns out that Bitcoin 1.0 was miscalibrated, then I would fully expect a Bitcoin 2.0 of some description to emerge which corrects Bitcoins errs. If Bitcoin fades away, I would keep my eye on the Darknet markets to see which crypto they are using for pointers.