Oh you did manage to make everything more complicated than it was already! :D But it's true, steem is one of a kind. There's no other crypto that comes close to SP and what you can do with it. It's just that not a lot of people still realize this and a lot of them are still on the bitcoin train. I think bitcoin is not fit for the masses, because the technology is too slow and the the fees are really high. And like you stated, you don't own anything when you have bitcoin. Plus, there's no usage for bitcoin, while SP is used for many things on this platform...
Haha that's the cost of writing this kind of post, sorry!
Well, we do own whatever Bitcoins we have in our wallet, but they're just tokens to transfer (or just to do a write function on the blockchain, only after paying the network fees). It's a cryptocurrency by definition, but I guess it's not a very satisfying standard when compared to something like Steem. We just need more peer to peer acceptance of the currency, some circular economy for exchange of goods and services with the currency.
Yeah, of course we own the Bitcoins that we have in our wallet, but there's not much you can do with it really. I can't wait till more and more people realize the true potential of Steem and see this crypto as one of the best crypto that exists so far.