I don't see why would anybody use Ethereum instead of Bitcoin.
Because you can build all the experimental smart contract ICO tokenized apps on ETH. So many of them in the pipeline now. Ethereum is possibly winning the race for developer mindshare.
Right now we claim that none of these apps will ever get any real world adoption, but we forget the speculators are the users. And now the developers are the users. Programmers matter A LOT.
I don't think Ethereum's technical design and ICO model is the best possible one, but there is nothing shipping now (or about to ship this month) which is unarguably better in app developer mindshare.
Who is in second place? Bitcoin or Steem?
And one or more of those ETH apps may end up causing a mania again. May not happen, but the chance of happening is one of the reasons to hold ETH.
This is an interesting view.
Since you know programming, is Ethereum code as bad as some say? Did you look into it?
I somehow live with the idea Ethereum is too big, too buggy to hold for a long time. The bold area can be interpreted in so many ways..
ETH needs to die with fire !
Many coins deserve that, although your list and mine may differ.Compared with many other coins, Ethereum came with something new, which should be either replaced by something better, either improved to become really good.
Unfortunately I don't see any of the two happen...