Why is Bitcoin (and Ethereum to a degree as well) still seen as “the future”, when they are technologically inferior to many alternate coins?

When looking at the crypto marketplace, I see many coins such as Hedera, Solana, and Cardano to name a few, who are massively superior in most senses like energy consumption, transactional speed and security, and gas fees, to the major coins such as BTC and ETH. And yet, these big cryptos are still seen as the currency of the future. Is this just because they’re considered the “early movers” in the market and have garnered public knowledge before these altcoins, or is there something that makes these larger coins different and “better”? For me, I can see BTC and ETH becoming like the “Yahoo” of early internet, and one of these other, more efficient and refined coins becoming the “Google”, or the natural evolution of an early, growing space into maturity. Thoughts?