Will waves follow similar steps as eth did?
Waves will probably follow Ethereum but Sasha is lazier than Vitalik. Don't forget that Ethereum rally started with a lot of ICO's. Waves need to do the same for similar grow. Otherwise they can't be as big as Ethereum. Until now we saw only small ICO's for Waves platform and almost all of them failed big time.
It really depends on how waves market will hit the demand from the people who really been struggling for now. The holding they had was such a challenging breakthrough right now, so we are going to wait until such time will come. Comparing it ethereum's current situation waves now is already following the footsteps of eth, and possibly in the future it will recover back what had failed specially those waves platform ico's.