Totally agree! It has all the functions bitcoin has to offer (easy to handle, good explorer, trading on numerous exchanges, paper wallets) but it's just much cheaper and faster to transfer. And it offers merged mining with litecoin witout any additional hardware or energy expenses.

And I found out it's rank 9 in terms of blockchain activity (--> see blocktivity.info) which means it has one of the highest transactions per day (on chain of course.)