it could be, as long as waiting for the increase of ethereum, because all altcoins at this time (other than Ripple) experience very bad decadence, because ethereum also experiences the same thing.
In one word it's no reason to grow for ETH with this hardfork. If BTC will up then ETH will up also without any hardfork. But fundamentally this patch allow making one step to PoS and as result to make ETH more interesting for investors