I can see why people would think it's prone to collapse in 6 months, it's a strange concept at first and for me it was only with time watching things develop that I started to see collapse as unlikely. When was the big bitcoin news this year? Give it a year or so after that and some positive news will act as a trigger to increase adoption.

Another possibility is that a different coin finds a way to get itself into the hands of the population with some usability leap forward.