A cool story is still a story... We take it on trust that Satoshi was a lone programmer or very small team that managed perfect opsec and didn't hang around for long after proof of concept was established. The wallets attributed to them haven't been touched since they were mined except for a tiny number of coins that were exchanged whilst they were still active. The story is a good one but is it the right one? If Satoshi was part of the intelligence community for example, all of this could be an elaborate psyop or long con, how would we react if all of his coins suddenly were part of the American Bitcoin Reserve? OR they turned out to be Russian or Chinese? Yes, it still works as coded but a lot of its power does come from its story. Bitcoin's concept arrived just when it was needed but if someone else had invented it, maybe other concepts would have been included that would have made it better? The fact that every coin can be traced unless it goes into a mixer is a concern. Maybe a different algorithm would be more quantum resistant, even things like the halving's and total number of coins could have been done differently - what would Bitcoin look like if we had got to this level of penetration with more coins left to mine? All the OG's have big bags and the rest of us who joined just a few years later have the scrapings - If Satoshi's motives were different to the ones we believe in, what looks like the perfect coin now, could turn out to be a very different story in a decade or two's time... This is why I believe that although 99% of the altcoins are useless, there is still a need for coins other than Bitcoin - if only to give us options to try stuff before committing it to the One True Coin!