I'm starting to believe that there won't be one. I'm holding a few different altcoins on Binance, most of them were acquired through airdrops or launchpools and when they were first introduced in the market, they were worth a substantial amount of money. However, their value just keeps dropping, and yes, they are likely a bunch of shtcoins, but this doesn't only apply to those I'm holding, but even in major altcoins that have been on the market for years. This has led me to believe that we won't see a major, or any, altcoin season anytime soon, with hopes to recoup some of their value slowly fading away.
You don't have to lose hope yet, wait upto the last minute of the bull market because you don't know what's going to happen. Things have changed drastically previously because of some good developments towards the market. I don't wish for the altcoins season not to happen because I have some altcoins too and I'll love it if some positive news can come around to rearrange the market for we to have a good market period again and not the constant bad market we have been getting for some weeks now.
Altcoins won't first Bitcoin to start pumping during the main bull market, it's because of Bitcoin increasing that other cryptocurrency will begin to do well. It doesn't matter if other cryptocurrency doesn't get back to their previous ATH but they should give profits to those buying because alot of investors are going to be losing if the altcoins don't move.