Slowly the term altcoin will become a thing of the past, as the robust coins find their place in the online ecosystem. As Simon Selitsky of Coingyft summarized, "think of Bitcoin and Ethereum not as competitors, but as apex species in their respective niches, similar to lions on land and sharks in the water. Lions and sharks are at the top of their respective food chains, but not in direct competition with each other."
That being said I am also hopeful that Steemit will become a great white so to speak, a "killer platform," so that individual people and large organizations will be on a more level playing field in the inherent value of their content. Now we just need a blockchain solution to verifying fact from fiction, which I hear is already underway.