It's no doubt that Bitcoin has revolutionalized the whole global financial landscape and has paved way for most coins that came after it to build a reputation that looks somewhat close to it although none has been able to come anywhere close to what Bitcoin has atained.
What other coins are really fighting for against Bitcoin is transaction fee, faster confirmation, scalability and interoperability, if you can be able to come out with a distinctive ideas of Blockchain based projects to make ways easier for users and other smaller projects to build upon is really a good one.
By the way, Bitcoin had done more good than harm since existence, her adoption and application has gone viral to be used globally clearing ways for others to connect the bitcoin payment gateway to respective digital stores online.