Altcoins are where the real gains are been made, a 50$ can fetch you over 5,000$, and 1000$ in the right altcoin can fech you over 70,000$ easily, so there is no way people won't have more interest in altcoins to maximize their gains, many altcoins are a bad investment but you need to research to find the right projects with right fundamental and potential.
Altcoins can make an investor an instant millionaires subject to a rapid pump in price of that invested altcoin, I recall vividly in 2018 in the aftermath of Bitcoin ATM alot of altcoins pumped massively thus some investment worth of $100 generates a massive reward of 1000% profits this is very real and obvious with reference to to some altcoin/USD price chart take a cursory check on past price history of some those altcoins in Binance App or other top exchange where a single daily price candlestick pumped massively in two to three days invariably massive profits was yielded.