Kk but it would seem more attractive to Litecoin CPU miners as there is no merged mining for that yet so all or most of the Litecoin CPU miners would likely adopt it pretty fast?
Unless Litecoin is abandoned because it gives absolutely nothing new other than mining without needing a GPU
I don't think Litecoin would be abandoned anytime before Bitcoin possibly was. It gives all the Bitcoin miners an extra currency to mine for and the merged mining potential with that currency is currently untapped.