I think everything that happens with ETH is because ETH has not developed so much that its technology needs to be upgraded and developed. However, perhaps from now on, everything will change and its price will increase incessantly, it has reached the era of ETH after Bitcoin has dominated the market for a long time.
We will see Ethereum network improve its system soon. The price of Ethereum passed $1,000 and cryptokitty proved Ethereum network has many problems need to solve soon if it does not want to be worse than Ripple in the future for apply in reality application.
Ethereum was slow because they were looking for the perfect timing of raising up of price. Moreover supporter of ethereum was small business that's why enlargement of this altcoins in the market was too slow. I think they need to catch a whale to support continuously their project.