Leaving sentiments asides, will you advise someone to still buy some Bitcoins (Not up to the value of 1) if they have an amount of money that will be okay to purchase the equivalent of 1 of a good altcoin with a strong community? Is having some bitcoins (in decimals) more valuable still than having the value of one good altcoin?
Bitcoin is of higher potential than altcoins, because from what's happening in altcoins market whereby some of the altcoins doesn't have long life over their stays, and sometimes altcoins die off when not expected and especially those ones that doesn't have a good potentials.
So from my perspective, i will not encourage anyone i know more better to go directly and in altcoins, because it might ends up having huge lost, because of the kind of the altcoins project you purchase for investing, and a considering factor of altcoins, i believe it's a few of altcoins can be used as comparison with bitcoin, so it's advisable or encourageable to invest with bitcoin during a strong time of bearish market instead of altcoins for long bearish season.