I've been into altcoin development for a while, helped with some projects here and there. Lets start something fun. What kind of altcoin do YOU want ? Lets come up with some great features here and develop it ourselves, for ourselves.
Many of you base your argument on merchant adoption. If merchant adoption is high, then everything is alright. I think that's not the case. Merchants look for customers and all they can sell. Adding a Bitcoin payment option for a merchant is risk-free, even Bitcoin is a Ponzi, Pyramid, etc.