It's probably better if Segwit is activated. The amount of people using Litecoin is going down all the time. Will soon remain as another dumped altcoin. 
I think the last price movement just shows that Litecoin truely need SegWit just to get back to limelight. I hope it can sustain the recent gains
thats probably the only reason litecoin activated segwit with all the speculations of bitcoin soon to have it implemented
am pretty sure they were/are trying to win some support through it indirectly and see the alt grow once again.
Necessary: its not a viable route for ltc which as it has a limited activity atm