I'm gree with you that ETH will never be close to BTC but the portion that i would  disagree that ETH price has been manipulated from the start and not safe to invest.And why?it's because Eth now is very important in terms of converting all tokens to ETH and then converted to BTC.When you rich your Jr Member soon, that's the thing that you can realize how important of ETH in terms of ICO compaign.Because they required ETH Adress ERC20 for our wallet in their filled up forms.