Then we mean different things and you're right about yours. If the altcoin arrives as payment for work you actually did — a test you ran, a bug you found, something you shipped — value was produced and the exit doesn't take sats off anybody; the other side got the work and paid for it. What stil...

Bitcoin hasn’t been hacked.

You risk getting ruggeth.

Only if you are quicker than the person on the other side of the trade, and the whole point of stacking sats is not having to be. Every rotation into alts for more bitcoin needs a slower trader doing the same thing at the same time. That slower trader is where the extra sats come from.