Bitcoin is perceived as the most successful cryptocurrency not only on those reasons listed above, Bitcoin has proven to be a success by maintaining it's core creation reasons which is encoded on the basics of sustainability, safe haven token, scarcity and test of time.
Bitcoin success is one which other crypto currency and projects look forward to imitate for the fact that it's a project with strong PoW, PoD and great security backing.
These factors has position Bitcoin in the top of chat for the most successful crypto project ever made by individual or let say anonymous body.
Many projects went against what they promised some even altered the things in their white paper but Bitcoin has not altered anything in the white paper including being decentralized, very secured and the 21 million supply, maybe it won't had been credible if it altered those stuffs I mentioned.
It's the credibility of Bitcoin that's helped made it the most successful coin and maintain that record for years. Any year people begin to lose trust in Bitcoin over decentralization or security wise maybe it could dump so badly but then Satoshi laid a good foundation for Bitcoin and it would continue to remain successful.