The lead Litecoin dev, Charlie Lee, made an unholy alliance with Bitcoin Core. He is part of their Dragon's Den troll coordination chat room and in return for

The lead Litecoin dev, Charlie Lee, made an unholy alliance with Bitcoin Core. He is part of their Dragon's Den troll coordination chat room and in return for his support on issues like blocksize and segwit they throw him a bone by recommending litecoin as Bitcoin becomes unusable for smaller transactions.