I think that investing in altcoins is part of the process, it's difficult to find someone who, at a certain point, didn't buy some altcoins with the hope that they would outperform bitcoin. And it happens, it's not easy to find the right ones but it's possible. I don't blame those who decide to take this risk.
Of course bitcoin in the long run is the best and safest choice, just a small part of money should go toward altcoins.

Bitcoin is the best project to invest on when we're dealing with crypto, we've encountered more promising results that became more effective on our paths. Bitcoin gave generated more revenue and have also become a project that elevated most of these traders, also ruining the crypto journey of some of them. OP talking about altcoin becoming suicidal path to follow, talk more or bitcoin that works seasonally. The bull and bear season, always ensure to make good use of them.

Altcoin are solid projects in the space, investing in them, it do mean we're ready for whatever results that comes our way which are under probability, it can be either good or bad, but any possible outcome, we should accept them. We have rare gem among these altcoin, there are some projects that will skyrocket to the moon on the very day of launch and there are some that fails, just stay positive and do thorough research before investing.

I always wonder why people are so critical about altcoins. I actually like them because they definitely also have some advantages. I mean usdt is a great thing, you can hold virtual currency without having the fear of price swings. Sure it's not an investment per se but it is crypto after all.
What can obviously be annoying about btc and not about altcoins is the quickness of confirmations and lower gas fees. We have all seen it and been there. Fees for btc go through the roof and you are waiting for a confirmation while the mempool if filling up on top of your transaction. Sure cpfp might help but it comes at a price as well. USDT on BSC chain costs around 0.13$ and confirms within a minute. No troubles getting your money quick and cheap. Other altcoins are even cheaper fee wise of course.

Anyway, I never get the critics of altcoins. You don't have to use them if you don't like them.

Everyone can indeed make certain choices to make a profit through the exchanges they often use every day, but I just want to suggest you not to hold any meme tokens for too long because new meme tokens usually only go viral for a moment so you need to let go as soon as possible when you see a high enough price on it. And you can use the profit to invest in Bitcoin because after all the new tokens that are continuously being born now are still not able to surpass Bitcoin in any way. So please use any strategy to find more profit, but in the end we must also remember that some of the profit will be better if placed in Bitcoin.

In economics perspective it is the most free project to invest upon than altcoins. As for me altcoins are just a waste of time and resources. Those who have invested in Ethereum from January till now, I strongly believe that they have not making anY profit from the investment but those who have invested in bitcoin has made good profit from it. Investing in altcoins are for the investors risk. From the bolded word in you content, bitcoin  is the best to invest and not an altcoins. . Bitcoin is "conservative" to invest because it is a free market for those who has the resources to participate. Bitcoin is also progressive to invest because it changes human life. And altcoins are not.

Unfortunately for those who hold ETH and believe in it, it can be said that this year has been a pretty bad year for ETH holders. But do you see investors in Solana or INJ? They could easily make a 10x return if they bought them in 2023 and held until now. These are just 2 of the many altcoins that are seeing growth in the altcoins market.
Bitcoin may be the best investment because its safety is far superior to the rest of the market, but investing in altcoins is not as bad as many people say. Only conservatives say that only investing in bitcoin can change people's lives. Any investment can change our lives if we know how and invest wisely, it all depends on us and not on bitcoin.

The bull season hasn't even started yet, once the bull season comes we will soon see many altcoins, shitcoins giving thousands of times returns, something bitcoin can't do these days.

The thread title seems a little bit over the edge. I mean, having to see Altcoins to be suicidal sent chills down my spine but the content, not so much.

Altcoins for sure comes with a different level to risk where you can’t really quantify anything except, having high hopes of an explosive return and many at times, it never happens. That has been the reality to this form of investment.

An unspoken truth which might make it a not so suicidal investment is that, majority of the people that take altcoin investments always do that with minimal or very fair amount. That’s because, it’s relatively cheap to get a whole altcoin, especially when it’s been introduced or listed on exchanges than the already established coins.Even for the few that haven’t gotten fame, it’s relatively cheap and you could get a whole lot of them.

Oh just have to open to it’s outcome and you’ll be fine, it doesn’t matter the outcome.