Altcoins today are struggling , yes no doubt about that but if much attentions are giving to some altcoins with lots of potentials, i think it will make altcoins standout in the market. although some altcoins lacks vision and there are several coins i believe will defintely change the market positively.
And until today, nothing much has changed. I agree that there are good projects out there that deserved to be recognized and spike to the price that it deserve to be. The only thing we can think positive of is that we can still get them cheap just like bitcoin in the last december that is the last accumulation period for btc so it is also going to happen to certain top tier altcoin projects.