To use a metaphor, most people tend to focus on who's the tallest kid in Kindergarten and tend to discard or dismiss the other talented kids. BTC will always be given much more of a authority status against the various other cryptos due to that very status and for the fact that it was the first after all. That should never mean that we be discouraged as Hive has it's benefits and it'll probably continue to grow happily in the time to come.