>the legitimacy of its network buy-in from being first to market

What legitimacy? It's all code. Any smart person will take something for it's technical merit. Good developers will eventually move.

>why not standardize on the one currency that has achieved the most adoption?

And where did that get us? A currency which isn't usable for daily transactions. And people give that "Oh it isn't meant for that, use Litecoin" comment. So why do we even quote adoption?

Even then, when a transaction takes $25+ dollars, you realize that there's something wrong.