Even if Counterparty dies, the Freimarket folks will be providing a replacement (if not an upgrade).
I also hold no Counterparty assets myself.
So no, I see no value to Counterparty specifically, just the functionality - which is already being worked on independently.
It's the Counterparty users who will lose out, unfortunately, unless someone steps up to move it forward.
as far as public is concerned freimarkets is another whitepaper in a sea of whitepapers and endless proposals constantly 'being worked on' and hypothesized
there's been a lot over the years. counterparty is here and now, the devs stepped up to the plate, stopped talking and wrote working code and for that they will have a following