Of course, we are obliged to support altcoins, since many of them perform really useful functions, and some outperform bitcoin dozens of times.
Not only we are obliged, since altcoins is a part of cryptocurrencies and we should support this for the improvement of the entire community. Our aims towards cryptoworld is to have a long life to stay with us and people will surely enjoy having investment as both bitcoin and altcoins grows together.
Of course altcoins is also a good way to make more money, right?
Its a thriving business and others says that we need to diversify, so its really good if you have a portfolio that includes altcoins are well. Recently (before the crash), altcoin is really enjoying a healthy ecosystem. Most of them achieved all time high from the second half of December last year up to 2 days ago. And I'm sure that a lot of investors enjoyed so much profit that they stay away from bitcoin for the time being.
But even though the market is crashing, I will still support them once everything is clear. Right now, I'm not making any move because I still observing everything from behind. But since everything is in red, its fun to go and try to buy some cheap altcoins and then just trade them when this slumped is over.