Sure...except now VTC is far from the most profitable Scrypt-N coin to mine (by itself) because people are merge-mining with MON. So it's not exactly "free" and, on top of that, it means that the sustained high difficulty will make it quite difficult to acquire without buying. Clearly, people are banking on MON having value. I only expect the network speed to continue rising as it begins to approach that of VTC as merge-mining VTC+MON is, as we all know, a no-brainer. Due to the rarity, I think it will be interesting to see what happens once this starts trading on exchanges (especially with the consistently reduced block rewards).