People mentally want to have whole coins or multiples of coins like 10 or 100 or 1000 and that is a lot more possible with EOS and some other projects. That is why during the parabolic phases alt coins go Parabolic to the Bitcoin Price. Look at the price moves in 2017 from Litecoin and Monero. It is far greater than the percentage gain of Bitcoin.
Geting to the next big run is the tough thing.