Bullshit and false. Nothing has grown. Look at the altcoin cemetery. Its a jankyard of both good and bad products. Steadily stopping being valuable because none of them really exists beyond correlation with bitcoin. I do not see the future for these unless bitcoin per se paves the path for all of them to enter another multi month bull mania phase. Unless that happens u can bury them in a damn burrow.
Although I do not have many coins of this project and the price increase is of course important, it is more interesting to follow the success of Bitcoin 2, as this will help the whole crypt in general.