Anyone who ignores alts as inferior is very shortsighted, and has missed a ton of profits. Likewise it would be silly to ignore bitcoin, though the faster they make changes to decrease fees and make it more scalable the better. None of these are good as currencies, except tether, because they are too volatile. I see them more as small cap stocks or commodities.. fixed supply with varying demand.
exactly, i'd like to swtich to ltc and eth for a while and when a fork occurs and the market decides a winner, i'll switch back to btc.
By then it will be too late to purchase BTC. If anyone of the chains emerge as the clear winner, then the prices will rapidly rise upwards. Remember what happened to ETH, after it won the battle against Ethereum Classic. But if both the chains remain alive without a clear winner, then the alts will gain. There is a strong chance that the market cap of ETH will overtake the combined market cap of BTC and BTC Classic.