The amount of people who have been introduced to the ideas behind cryptocurrency in general, and btc in particular, through shitcoins, is invaluable. The amount of public awareness of the space, and the concepts that matter in the space, is the real rate limiting factor on btc adoption In fact, it might even be the case that the scamminess has served to make very clear the value prop of btc in a way that would have been otherwise impossible.

There has never, and will never be, one single language, despite the network effects that would seem to dictate that there should be. This is a fact that maxis might benefit from pondering.