so if you look back, in early years we saw most altcoin projects be good or at least have some fresh ideas (i am talking about the first couple of years like 2010), but when you compare it with these days every project is only a money grab thing and people only want to trade them on exchanges. nobody even runs their wallets/nodes anymore.
After all they just get into crypto to earn profit they got interested when the price was flying high.
They don't really care about the project all they care about is the profit.