It's clear that Ether has reached its peak, and now that people are realising SegWit activation is likely to be soon it seems pointless except for temporary ICO hype which is frankly embarrassing to blockchain technology considering how shit most of these projects are.
There's also the fact that every time Ethereum comes close to Bitcoin in the number of transactions processed, exchanges needs to shut down ETH processing completely and wait for it to blow over.
Imagine if Bitcoin was like that. "No, I can't pay you right now because Bitcoin is down."
I think people are catching on to the fact that if Bitcoin doesn't scale then Ethereum really, really doesn't scale.