It certainly has the potential to surpass Bitcoin, not because it's better (Ethereum is a clusterfuck for so many reason) but because so many big companies are backing it because they are holding bags and big whales holding bags means a big pump to exit the market must happen sometime in the future. The problem is, ETH continues to underperform against BTC, and most people buy ETH with BTC, not with USD... so unless it starts performing great against BTC, I will not bother. I want more BTC gains, not more USD gains while I lose BTC (and that is what ETH is doing thus far, look at the charts).

In the long term ETH will collapse and BTC will be #1 for a lack of a better alternative.