Altcoins were developed only so that people could mine on commodity hardware and it be impossible to mine on GPUs FPGAs ASICs... oh shit, why do they exist now?
Maybe it is time you take a strong look at Nxt! 
Not really, I was dissing them.
Regardless... there is an answer to your question...
Hence the drop of GPU support after 3.8. I agree alts are a side show, like clowns. IMHO they're only good for pump n dumps to make more btc
Bitcoins are to dollars as altcoins are to dimes.
When I have enough dimes.........
You can call them clowns all you want but I make my kids tuition payments with the altcoins I mine.
Bitcoins too, just for the record.
Just remember there are many altcoins that are 4000% more profitable than Bitcoins and at least TWICE as stable.
Everytime China farts BTC crashes.
This is nonsense. Perhaps alts are 4000% more profitable than Bitcoins if you're trying to mine both using a GPU, but no-one is mining BTC with GPUs right now.
The Antminer S1 is $450 right now and will earn around $9.50 a day. I don't think any scrypt mining hardware can come close to returning $9.50 per day with a $450 hardware investment right now.
I did imagine what I could do with a couple of Gridseeds, and it gives me nightmares. Gridseed miners are quite possibly the worst hardware buy available right now. Each one costs around $200 for 400 MH, and pays a earns a paltry $1 per day, with means they will take ~200 days to ROI not including power costs and difficulty increases.
It takes ~5.6 MH right now to earn a single litecoin per day, which is worth a whopping $14 each.
About the only thing worse than buying Gridseed miners right now would be pre-ording a Titan.