If you are a true shitcoiner, you necessarily will degrade bitcoin as 'old tech'. Private companies that control shitcoins are highly profitable and utilize their fiscal influence over politicians and media to justify the existence of their shitcoin which necessarily requires they discount the validity and value of bitcoin and the 'old tech' that makes bitcoin what it is. Most people are initially attracted to crypto because of the opportunity presented by FOMO around shitcoins. When the muck the shitcoin was built on is eventually exposed by a FUD induced fluctuation in the market, a new batch of our fellow bitcoin maxis are minted. If we can assume Vitalik believes his own bullshit, we can be assured that when ethereum eventually crumbles he too will be a fellow maxi.