Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, but some people try to separate bitcoin from cryptocurrencies because of what altcoins are today. I am not referring to stable coins.

Bitcoin is a store of value, almost all altcoins are not store of value. Most altcoins are pumped and dumped heavily in a way they are not getting to all-time high.

Some people called most altcoins to be gambling. Some people see most altcoins as modern day pyramidal scheme.

Although, bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, but it is very different.

The impression about you, OP, is as if you haven't read the posts of those who respond to the topic that caused your misunderstanding. If you had taken the time to read the answers, you would have made a correct understanding for yourself that people consider Bitcoin to be a separate cryptocurrency, since it is difficult to put it on a par with all alternative coins that cannot achieve all the advantages of Bitcoin even by half. Nevertheless, Bitcoin remains a cryptocurrency, the first, the only, and unique; everything else is a faint resemblance, something that someone is trying to recreate with all the advantages of using but having certain disadvantages.

Read that OP topic; it's answered by the same users to whom you ask a question in this topic.

Yes the majority would address bitcoin as a cryptocurrency,then while few enthusiasts would oppose that bitcoin is bitcoin and doesn’t fall under the category of a cryptocurrency.Though most of those enthusiasts have their reasons why they don’t consider bitcoin as a cryptocurrency,probably because of the difference between bitcoin and altcoins/shitcoins.Bitcoin is quite different from all those tokens and projects in the crypto space,for instance most altcoins/shitcoins developers are widely known across the globe for instance Vitalik Buterin who is widely known as the inventor of the Ethereum blockchain project but the inventor of bitcoin is unknown neither has he been seen in a podcast.Anyways,you can refer bitcoin as a cryptocurrency because it was the first successful crypto to be created.

The thing I have noticed or my opinion when I hear the word crypto I think of everything
Except Bitcoin
But when a person says cryptocurrency
I consider all that makes use of cryptography like Bitcoin does.
Another would just choke that it's Bitcoin maximalist being Bitcoin maximalist
Which instead when many say crypto they talking about altcoins.

Like it’s said people are actually trying not have bitcoin in a category of cryptocurrency just because of the other coins which most of them there protocols are almost against bitcoin principle, but let’s be sincere there is no way bitcoin can be separated  from the general tag of cryptocurrency because bitcoin is even the coin leading all the cryptocurrency not only because it’s actually the first cryptocurrency coin but it’s the one other coins follow even in market trend. If cryptocurrency is mentioned anywhere even those who are yet to adopt bitcoin are quick to label any cryptocurrency discussion a bitcoin thing, I don’t think this classification will ever stop, because bitcoin is actually a cryptocurrency

Being a bitcoin maximalist isn't a very bad title though, of course it saves you from meddling with counterproductive shitcoins that pollute the crypto industry. I rather hold only bitcoin than waste my time on a lot of altcoins of which can never measure up.
Irrespective of the fact that some Altcoins are still useful in their applications and not all are very bad projects, but bitcoin still deserves a unique classification based on it's incomparable features of which no other cryptocurrency can dream of measuring up with yet nor in the near future.

A leader should be given special recognition and bitcoin earned it as the leading cryptocurrency.

Technically Bitcoin is actually a cryptocurrency, but people want it to be separated and be called on its own name so that people especially those new ones will not get confused with other scam alts.

Also some other people deny that Bitcoin is not crypto, maybe because they think its different when in terms of fundamentally, because some other coins or alts are been created just to scam people. What unique about Bitcoin is it only have 21M fixed supply and created on purposed to be an alternative with fiat, which cannot be controlled by government. Also Bitcoin remain credible while other crypto are still in questionable state. That's why when it comes on adoption Bitcoin always stands among those thousands of other cryptocurrencies available in the market.

Yeah... many people want to separate Bitcoin and crypto, although it is the same digital currency but for maximalists this is different.

Previously I had come across the term "Bitcoin is crypto, not all crypto is considered bitcoin" I forgot the name of the article explaining this because it was just a quick look.

A beginner would consider this part of crypto.
A Bitcoin OG or Bitcoin maximalist is clearly different they want to separate his.

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. And, yeah, as you've put it, "just like everything else". However, the quoted phrase is exactly the reason why some won't call Bitcoin a cryptocurrency. There's danger in lumping Bitcoin together with the rest.

While cryptocurrency is divided between Bitcoin and altcoins, to casually group them together as if they're the same is to seemingly disregard the world of differences--serious, fundamental, core--between Bitcoin and altcoins. To a great extent, it's risky and misleading to find Bitcoin on a list which includes Fartcoin, Trump Coin, Boobcoin, and countless others.

Cryptocurrencies are for all, from Bitcoin to altcoins. Altcoins themselves in full names are alternate or alternative cryptocurrencies.

There are many differences between Bitcoin and altcoins which are abundant in numbers as hundreds of thousands, in names from Bitcoin forks to Ethereum forks, and from noisy nicknames like Bitcoin killers or Ethereum killers.

Their difference is from project purposes like most altcoins were created to scam, and they succeeded to scam people while don't create anything new, innovative or helpful for people.

Difference is also like Bitcoin has still survived well, and not only this it also grown up stronger with time despite of a half of thousand of "Bitcoin is dead".
While altcoins don't need such attacks, they self-die, automatically die with time as scammers from the start did not intend to stay too long time with scam projects.

https://bitcoindeaths.com/