I have avoided Ethereum like the plage since day one mostly because of technological reasons, and when the DAO fiasco happened I felt like I proved my bias against it. Having said that, from a market perspective I have to admit that Ethereum had an amazing performance during the last four months, and it's doing remarkably well during this bloody January.
well there have been a TON of altcoins that performed amazingly during the last four months and last year generally. a lot of them even outperformed ethereum in the past couple of months. but the issue with most people around here is that they only look at coinmarketcap and don't bother going lower than #10
the real money lies within coins that are manipulated exactly like ETH but have a smaller market cap and price so they can be pumped much easier.
Right now Bitcoin have a market cap of $172B, and for Ethereum it's $110B.
because bitcoin has 16,800,000 coins while ethereum has 97,330,000 coins. that is 5.79x more supply while it has 0.63x bitcoin's market cap!