It is/was never about the price, but it is all about the features and uses it offers. The Market Cap is what you should see if you want to know how powerful a coin is, and if you have checked, the current price of Bit20 (BTWTY) is $1,058,670 and its Market Cap is just slightly higher than its price, which is $1,075,609. So basically, Bitcoin doesn't need to be the highest in price, but it is always on top because of its acceptance. People trade Bitcoin more than anything in the world, and its Market Cap is the proof of that.
Ask yourself, would you go with something having a higher price or something having more uses? I'm sure you would go with the second one. That is how Bitcoin is, IMO.
Even the market cap doesn't tell it all. If you want to manipulate the market cap, you premint your coin, throw a fraction of this premint to an exchange and buy it all with a high artificial price. Then the CoinMarketCap.com shows the artificially high and misleading market cap of that coin.
So you should look at any coin as a whole: its use cases, its value, price and market cap, trading volume, what is it that makes it different from all other coins... A whole