Most people will tell you they have heard of bitcoin when asked but will say no if you ask them about ethereum or any other altcoin.
It has been 6 years since I got into crypto and I still struggle to think of anything useful you can do with ethereum other than buying stupid NFTs, running scam projects and rugpulls.
Mm....I'd say a lot of people have heard of ETH since the ETH/USDT pair is reported on a lot of financial websites and probably in the WSJ as well. Nevertheless, I agree with you about its uselessness. That whole ICO craze was based on Ethereum, and it was so full of scams and pie-in-the-sky ideas whereby blockchain technology can be used to solve problems in any industry. And what happened? The whole thing came crashing down, and the same thing is or will happen with NFTs (which are idiotic IMO).
Who cares if BCH or BSV fans attack bitcoin? Those are two altcoins out of thousands, and they're not even the only forks of bitcoin out there. Bitcoin is king, so sayeth the market, though I have to say that other coins make for much better forms of money in so far as the network fees are much less, confirmation times are shorter, etc. But who's using bitcoin as money anyway? Not many people as far as I can tell, so let the bitchers bitch.