There's a surprising amount of hate directed at litecoin, even for a bitcoin forum. Its not true that there is no potential advantage to litecoin. Here are some things I can think of. I'm sure some of these points are contestable but it is worth being open minded.
* It confirms 4 times faster.
* It allows one to diversify one's cryptocurrency holdings without going into the lunatic fringe of the more obscure alt-coins.
* As the price of litecoin has fallen some value has crept in. The community and infrastructure surrounding litecoin may not be great but its not nothing either.
* Litecoin transactions sound reasonable. 1 coin for 1 sandwhich, not 0.01 coins for a sandwhich.
* The litecoin community is less stratified into haves and have nots. It wasn't pre-mined in the same way as a lot of alts and doesn't seem to have as many as the same early adopter whales (many such people will frankly have been wiped out).
* Under-development can mean opportunity. Ask investors in China. There are opportunities in litecoin which have already been taken in bitcoin.
* Its not true that nobody is starting to accept litecoin:
http://www.coindesk.com/remax-london-accepts-bitcoin-litecoin-dogecoin-pilot-program/In all I agree that the endless deluge of alts has hurt the quest for an alternative money system but I don't get the hate towards litecoin. You do want
some diversity.
A good analogy is GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux has
way too many distributions. This variety in distributions (and increasingly in display servers, and graphical interfaces), divides development resources, makes it harder to package for all distributions and confuses consumers. In short, it hurts GNU/Linux, yet linux people won't stop forking projects and creating unnecessary new ones. Some of these distros are maintained by about one person. Distro watch lists 100 distros. Do we really need "SliTaz GNU/Linux". Not really is my opinion.
I think GNU/Linux should consolidate for its own sake and for the sake of the cause of free software. But I do not think that there should be only one option for GNU/Linux. Why should there be? A little choice and competition never hurt anybody.