I am interested to see what's happening with the masternode count of a dieing coin. I don't think you can run any BSD masternode profitable anymore and given this I wondered why the count didn't drop sharply alongside the value. Now there is no count anymore.
Most alts have suffered with the current state of things and you are correct masternodes do not provide a source of income for people as the rewards are very low currently. The only reason people have to stay on board is because they think the dev is here for the long run and will keep the project functional through the hard times. Once projects disappear because people cant make a ton of $$$ we start to see who is still here for the long term.