My personal opinion is that most altcoins that are currently traded on exchanges are not needed at all and they will disappear over time. All these projects are completely meaningless and do not cost anything.
This is why I chose to stay with the top exchange because I really see that we have meaningless projects in the market and if you are not careful to be disciplined and stay with very well recognized projects alone, you may end up falling into some of these scam projects.
If we had regulations, I am sure that the 2000+ tokens that we have in the market would not have been possible because the regulators will really filter all the tokens and make sure that they exempt all the projects that looks like it’s a duplicate and also ensure that all the project team and developers are really verified before they can get to announce their project to the public or try to get money from the public just like they do in IPO which we may really find IPO projects free of scam.