Hard to call a BTC fork like monero a shitcoin when it isn’t trying to compete with BTC, but rather prioritize privacy, which seems like a popular concept around here.
There are things we can learn from monero, things that make it impossible to regulate, which makes it kinda perfect, in its own way.
It can’t be legitimized in the same way because nothing can be tracked, but it’s immutable and works flawlessly.