Seems like Ripple (the company) may have a lot of success. Also seems like the sooner they realize/admit that XRP is not a key part of that success, the more focused they'll be and the better they'll do. That's likely to happen with lots of tokens in the future...they're utility tokens, not equity.
Well, no one may dispute that fact, but with the consideration that this is a coin that we all know is more or less a manipulated coin, I would not probably want to gamble that for a position. It could recover in the long run, no one absolutely knows and it may not, but the thing is that it would always be what it is. For the good development, do not expect that what is driving it is actually the community support.