It's true, altcoins are the best example of projects that are chasing bitcoin, due to the gainings it can offer. It's not something dire, don't get me wrong, I think it's even better for our economy to see such many altcoins out here, even though many of them are falling right now. I like projects that are trying to handle current situation like event hough there are tough times now for many altcoins. For example, one of my favourites altocins is FuturoCoin due it's fantastic community, and recently they changed their sourcecode and masternodes system, hoping for the best.
Bitcoin itself is really profitable even without the help of other altcoins but its better if you have both as investments. I guess people are just experimenting and take chances if they put all of their money in altcoins. Thats what trading is all about anyway.
I cannot disagree with that, it's true that cryptocurrency can change lives of human financial conditions, but there is always a risk though.