I always thought that initial coin price is not important, because there is no difference between buying 1000 coins at $0.001 or 0.001 coin at $1000. Buy most of my friends who are newbie in crypto prefer buying low cost coins ("BTC is already $15000 but Rillple is still cheap").
Maybe that means that new people coming to crypto would prefer new altcoins (especially altcoins with lower price and more total supply) rather then BTC, ETH and other > 1000$ coins?
Also with cheaper coins it's simply easier to calculate whey purchasing something with crypto. I'm sure everyone is using calculators while trading on BTC/* pairs))
Yes Ripple is cheap but I would suggest other coins that really worth of your money. Like ETC, ICX, POWR and many more those coins are really have more potential than Ripple if you are planning for long term hold. Well you can spend some on Ripple but wait for it the price go down around 2k or 1k sats because that's the perfect time to buy ripple.