And crypto will be better off because of it. Ethereum has a better network with more utility (contracts) and can do currency just like BTC.
I wonder how many users have actually taken ETH off exchange and stored it in their own wallet.
Try downloading the full blockchain. Is the same size as BTC with less history, takes 5 times as long on an SSD and uses a lot of disk I/O.
In my opinion, it is not an efficient payment processor. It should be used as the distributed computing platform it was designed for.
So why is Ethereum a better network?
No regular user download the full blockchain nowadays, Bitcoin users don't download the Bitcoin blockchain neither. There's probably nearly a million Bitcoin users, and only a few thousand full nodes. ETH actually has more full nodes than Bitcoin atm.