ethereum has already proved its strong infrastructure with its blockchain, smart contracts and several token standards. on the other hand waves is still in the beginning of its developing stage and need to be useful to prove itself.
Actually I believe both are at the beginning phase of development. Both have their own strong and weak sides when compare.
I agree with you, that both are just in the beginning phase of development and have a long way to go ahead.
Still Ethereum is my favourite, because already have a lot of successful projects build on its platform.
Yeah, I also like eth because it is so famous and also an intermediate character in most of the transactions on the exchange, in addition, as you say, it is the foundation for so many projects and just so, it is enough to speak up the power and space to develop. And when compared to waves, waves is probably much weaker because I did not see it stand out for a long time, its contribution to the projects seems to be too small, and that makes it not get the support from the community, the consequence is that its ratings are constantly decreasing