If the crypto projects were working in collaboration more often, then the whole crypto community would achieve bigger accomplishments all at once!
Seems optimistic but problem is that most altcoin projects are designed to be hidden pump and dump schemes. The fools who invest in those are going to lose big time while the owners become rich. Do you expect the owners to be in it for the tech or the bigger picture? You are wrong if you think that. Of course not all of them are bad.
Synergy would be on the side of cryptos if that were the case, we see these days many projects working on their own each of them having as result longer periods of releasing updates and new features.
But are they working on any? In a true sense bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency the public needs. Rest of them are like sideliners with no function and adds in redudancy which people try to justify using flawed logic.
It is time to find ideas and bring teams together and work smart rather than hard. With collaboration among team projects like Lightning network, bitcoin smart contracts, ETH scalability, and many features could be ready for the masses sooner and the global economy would have a big positive impact!
What is needed is adoption and use of bitcoin. No need for any altcoin to be there. Lets hope for the better but altcoins will not be anything big in the long run. Bitcoin is and the first and the leader.