I have to agree that pure unabashed clones are a waste of time even when created without any malicious intent. If you have some technical improvement try to convince an existing coin to implement it first before spinning off a new coin.
Technical in what way? For instance I wanted to improve the UI a bit with more features, if I can of course, but anything more important as changing part of the protocol to do something in a different way, like PPC does proof of stake blocks, is beyond me.
Though I did want to go for increased precision, i.e less than 0.00000001.