Ripple has a big potential with it's developer and investor, they love to start a bull run periodically then smash it like nothing. If you can catch that "ripple" on it's start you can gain 10x-15x but if you be late you can lose a lot, it is risky but if you look at yearly graph it is about time and today's rise seems like a signal. 
What you said is true that in fact Ripple superseded Ethereum once again even in this bearish market condition. Hopefully many did buy Ripple as we will expect it will rise up even more because of this current development unlike Ethereum in which its looks like it will ride with the dip.