What about bigger alts?
They tend to be less volatile-ish, however, nobody can see into the future, like it was with SOL and LIBRA token that brought such massive price downward action.

Hodling is just where the potential lies.
Because we know for a fact what lies ahead of BTC.

Focusing on Bitcoin as a trader isn't bad because it can not be easily manipulated, but the slow movement might be quite discouraging sometimes except you're a swing trader. Irrespective, trading altcoin is not a bad idea because I do more of altcoin trading. And, if I must say, they give higher reward. The truth is, it depends on your trading strategy, greed level and your selected pairs. I have a quite number of good altcoin that I trade with less or no manipulation. Also, due delegence, chart analysis strength and strong fundamentals can keep one ahead of any altcoin, wether newly listed or not, ones win can be 80-90% guaranteed.

Honestly, trading with bitcoin or altcoins, that depends on the individual trader's preferences. Bitcoin can be a good and reliable one, but let's accept the fact that not all those who trade using bitcoin end up profitable. Some find altcoins more profitable than bitcoin, despite of the high risk involved. So to answer if bitcoin is worth for a consistent trading, that depends on individual various preferences in trading. Some may prioritize using bitcoin, some may not.

I started trading using the BTC/USDT trading pair, and it went so well. Of course, we don't just stay there, so I try using altcoins to know how things work and if it is more profitable. Unfortunately, things never work so well, and as expected, losses happen as I fall into hype projects.Trading is about exploring the market to find out which one works for us. But based on my experience, it's better to trust known and old coins for a safe trade rather than trading new coins, which most likely ends in losing due to scam issues.

Use reputable trading platforms...

Hmmm, well as far as I understand that trading strategy in Bitcoin is not as profitable as compared to the HODL strategy. The best way to make a profit in Bitcoin is long-term holding. Despite Altcoin being better for day trading due to its volatility. Because often Altcoins have a pump dump, which is actually a better option to trade. It is true that there is more risk in Altcoin due to extreme volatility and that's why I believe that form my own experience, using altcoins just for day trading is the best and wisest act. Altcoin have not that worthy to hold for long term due to its risk. There is only one best option for Hodl and that is Bitcoin, which can actually organize long-term profit with good margins. For day trading, Altcoins are the best way…

Altcoins are risky so many traders trade with trusted currencies like Bitcoin. Now those who are professional traders and can analyze well earn huge profits by trading in altcoins. As the risk is high in altcoins, but again in altcoins high profits can be expected. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has lower risk even though the potential for profit is lower. Now trading is risky, so I don't like to trade, although sometimes I trade with currencies like BTC and Ethereum. Now a few hours ago I heard the news of ByBit Exchange being hacked and don't like to trade for that too. But I have been using Kucoin Exchange for a long time.

Trading and holding contains both risk but if you want to choose the lesser one, holding is the choose. I agree that if you don't know what you're doing, you're doing it wrongly and might as well just avoid trading and accumulate through DCA. Going ahead and choosing what's best to accumulate more will define of what kind of risk taker you are. No stops anybody if they want to show up and choose trading but the brutality of the market will make you choose the safer option.

I guess you know that trading BTC or altcoin is by choice, and you can't force people to trade what they don't like to trade in the market because if you force them to trade altcoins to experience profits, it will make them to believe that altcoin is more profitable than BTC which is not true, just that they have not try BTC trading to know how profitable it is to traders.

Those that have the idea of BTC and altcoin, they will prefer to buy BTC when it is time to buy and hodl to trade in the bull run to earn profit that will make them to be focus only on BTC,  but if you want to invest in BTC and altcoin, you can go ahead and invest on them, but make sure you invest little on altcoin because altcoins can misbehave sometimes to cause their investors to experience losses.