Supporters of all these altcoins are clouded by bias and are missing the very core of something:
redundancy.
In that I can make a perfect clone of *any* coin now, including Bitcoin, give it all the features, attributes, security, and issue rate of a great coin, even with no pre-mine, I can give it the very same "immaculate conception" as Bitcoin, etc., etc.
So with all of that, should this altcoin I create just automatically be deemed as having value? Just because I launch it into existence? No.
What it has is
redundancy. To Bitcoin.
If I create a new clone of Linux is it better than Linux? No, it's just redundant.
If I create a new clone of an iPhone is it better than Apple's iPhone? No, it's just redundant.
If I create a new clone of Facebook is it better than Facebook? No, it's just redundant.
And on and on and on... redundant things are worthless things. See the recent fate of Google+ as an example.
More impacted than redundancy is disregard to the eco-space that created the technology. In 2013 I became very disgusted by the new coins that were being released daily, found it absurd that people justified creating their own pyramidal scams. Now today with the beyond redundancy being created only emphasizes the "scam" of early adoption rewarding scheme.
If you have a new idea or "feature" why is it not possible to implement it into a proven secure coin/blockchain? Simple answer-- It is tough to be at the top of a pyramid unless you create a new one.