Although I generally agree with you that the landscape of things is different in crypto, saying that "everyone is helping everyone" is a bit on the overly utopian edge.
Many things and developments in cryptoland are as ugly as people can be. Betrayal, fraud, greed, ego, scams and rivalry, cryptoland has it all in abundant supply.
Let's remember that at the end of the day we're still all human. With imperfect system settings and much cognitive bias.
And compassion, cooperation, and synergy can be found in our current system of competitive capitalism. This is a numbers game. It's all about the statistics. When every project is open source saying "everyone is helping everyone" isn't ridiculous.
If an EOS platform comes out that completely blows Steem out of the water pretty much everyone on the planet wins except for Steem whales who are exploiting the system. Sounds like a good trade to me.