Your post reflects exactly what many of us think about... I think we all are waiting for this transfer from BTC to altcoins and hopefully it will come soon...
One thing is clear for me, we should not compare the price of an altcoin versus the USD or EUR, we have to do the comparison always against bitcoin since if we would invested only in BITCOIN we would get better profits now...
Anyway, I have the firm conviction that BITCOIN will be overpassed in capitalisation (but surely not in price) by any other more useful altcoin in order to be used as a daily basis