Totally agree with you 1000%. Bitcoin stumbled way too much in this long 6 years of existence. In fact here's what Altcoin developers from Maidsafe had to say about Bitcoin's troubles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIasr2AiyZ0Very funny. Except MaidSafe was already in the works before Bitcoin was released. So SafeCoin will hardly be an "altcoin". It's not an alternative, it's a new paradigm.