I looked for traces of Satoshi on the Internet. I've read all of his posts since 2009. He is sublime. If you read his writing, you can feel his passion. I have a little bit of bitcoin. I'm pretty relieved just to have Bitcoin. But if you look back at history.. Yahoo lost to Google. Yahoo was great, but Google was even better. Satoshi gave us a gift called Bitcoin without any greed and went somewhere. The problem is, new geniuses are born all the time, and technology advances. Bitcoin is not physics. It's blockchain technology. Which means that bitcoin is not an immutable law. A better technology than Bitcoin could emerge. What should we do if someone gives us a better system than bitcoin as a gift and leaves? It performs better than Bitcoin, and it even has the perfect decentralization of Bitcoin, which we value highly. Bitcoin was created in 2009, and now it's 2023. Cars made in 2009 cannot be better than cars made in 2023 or later. What if someone with as much genius and passion as Satoshi is creating a system better than Bitcoin?
Of course that is the nature of technology, some of them come and go. But so far with all the thousands of altcoins that have existed, no one can still topple Bitcoin. And maybe Satoshi was really a genius. I mean him disappearing really put his "Project" into like an enigma that up to this day, it is still the number 1 crypto and not even anyone can get close to it.
Actually there was an attempt before, and it was called "The Flippening", wherein Ethereum supposedly overtaking Bitcoin, but they failed.
And then "The Rippening", Ripple as well, but then again, their attempts met similar faith as Bitcoin didn't moved.
So still depends on Bitcoin enthusiast to make it and continue to be the dominant coin and so far all signs pointed that Bitcoin community is very strong till the next the decade.