I think year 2018 will be fertile for most altcoins.
For example, altcoins that I think will be successful in 2018 ; Dash , Ethereum , Waves , Neo ...
Agree with you and you missed out Litecoin now lite coin has joined the league of biggie and I guess ethreum will reach the slot where bitcoin once used to be I mean $600 and Litecoin might reach $300 in couple of months if the speculation goes well along with the market situation.