This could be what a reasonablemind could say, but think about this : altcoins have no purpose. Absolutely no altcoin can permit you to buy food or car or hardware.
You can't do that with bitcoin any more either. Transactions don't get confirmed in time. And once, you couldn't buy stuff with bitcoin either. Merchants are dropping bitcoin because it is too much hassle. Honestly, switching to an alt coin is not such a problem.
Bitcoin's arrogance of thinking it could be the only one is bringing it down. Bitcoin has nothing for it apart from its name.