Bitcoin doesn't need altcoins because it was making its way by its own.Altcoins are dependent on Bitcoin which has been seen over and over again on every rise in price of Bitcoin.Bitcoin will always rule the digital/crytpocurrencies no matter how advanced they will be in tech but still will remain under Bitcoin
I don't think so, altcoins can change the value of bitcoin(for more or for less).
For example, an altcoin can bring attention of the public that don't know bitcoin yet, and after some time they can learn more about bitcoin and start to use it and the price goes up, or, people can buy alts with bitcoin and the value goes down...
Isn't that something a friend error ..?? . You are trying to learn how to altcoin use the bitcoin as their main currency (exchange rate). Mostly just to reinforce the growth of the bitcoin, because they came out or came up with using bitcoin and currency conversion of $ only as an indicator on the price they could get when selling altcoin. You must continue to learn in order to get maximum results