I believe that the time will come, slowly the altcoin starts to crawl up now and my hope is that by the end of the year it will be like this last year. The number of short positions fell to a historic low.This suggests that the bears have exhausted their strength, and perhaps soon we will see the growth! I hope so.
Everyone agrees that altcoins had their share of bearish movements and they are at the bare bottom right now and should be higher but unfortunately nobody votes for it with their money anymore. There was a huge movement for altcoins two years ago but after many people lost too much money in that and not many lost in bitcoin that became a way of people saying "if I can have guaranteed little income thanks to bitcoin, why should I risk for higher income for altcoins" and people just backed out.
Definitely, there are still millions of dollars involved in altcoins every single day but there used to be even more and this amount just doesn't cut it when you consider it is divided into multiple altcoins versus just one bitcoin.
Hopefully, this year it will be better but I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.