All disputes about the price here are meaningless until the development team optimizes the project. They need to achieve high-speed transaction processing, universal acceptance as a means of payment, application development for convenient storage and use of Eth.
As for transactions they are quite fast, during this market conditions one can sand any ETH or token amount just for 2-4 gas. Many people here relied on Ethereum as a mean of crypto hodling, but it was plunged 30% during the month, while bitcoin was volatile enough to earn some profit. Take a look at the all time charts, the second time ETH makes this summer trick.