What's the deal with Litecoin?

I'm admittedly not too well versed in the crypto world but have been watching on and off since I was a kid.

I remember getting some litecoin during the old bitskins csgo days and Litecoin stood side by side with bitcoin back then (in terms of relevancy not value).

Entering the crypto scene now though, the prices seem to be night & day, and conversations online don't really seem to discuss it all that much. Even the recent halving, quite literally, almost cut the price in half.

I'm most likely missing a great amount of context here, but while doing research on the topic I wasn't able to find anything "wrong" with Litecoin.

It seems to follow the same high-low trends as every other mainstream coin on the market, so why is it still so low despite its longevity?

Why did BTC and ETH rise to the prominence they are right now but LTC got left in the dust?