If there is no alt coin, i believe bitcoin will be stronger as all these alt coin is not supporting btc but replacing btc. However, it is inevitable alt coin will exist, just like how silver and nickel will exist in real world.
altcoin for me is to support bitcoin. because if there is no altcoin then bitcoin will be difficult to compare. and also there will be no variation in trading.
I agree altcoin support bitcoin demand. It also gives bitcoin alot more exposure. Without altcoin the number of people who are in bitcoin now and very active would have not known bitcoin.
If there were no other crypto currencies I think the price of bitcoin will be more stable since people could not try to ride a rising in the price of bitcoin so easily, besides I think a lot more people will hold their coins and that may cause the price to go higher than it is right now.
I don't think that the price of bitcoin will be a lot higher if there is no altcoin. For me there will be less buy demand if there is no altcoin and how would that increase the price of bitcoin?