Ethereum developers are shifting their strategic focus. Ethereum continued to improve the security of blockchain application networks by implementing two hard and two unexpected bifurcations; Ethereum founder Vitalik Bruin began planning a new milestone. The ensuing strategic adjustment will help to "abstract" or reduce most of the complexity of Ethereum's rules to virtual machines, reducing the overall complexity of the system. This helps to achieve long-term planning features and the integration of the network.
They just need a good tactics and strategy to overpowered or surpass bitcoin. As of now, they are consistent being the number two cryptocurrency and it is a good stats so they will be in good shape until they got a big success. As of now they are all aline with bitcoin but we can expect that someday they will be independent to themselves.