Altcoins doesn't actually suck at all. Market price may be low as of now, but its a great way to diversify your portfolio. If you invest everything you have to bitcoin, then it suddenly drops, tendency is that you lose everything you have. And the saddest part there is that you don't know when it'll rise back up again. But if you actually split you money to different alts and btc, that will lessen your chance of losing and definitely more % of earnings for you.
Diversify and find ways to make it earn, do trading. It's a sure way to earn even little since we are the one who will decide whether to buy or sell at the price.
At least dividing capital will be much safer, because one altcoin might fall and you still have other altcoin investments. You also have
to manage risk well mate, don't let you choose all your investment with small altcoins, make sure you have invest in a trusted altcoin one, like Ethereum, XRP, etc. so the risk is not too big..