Riak will recover in the near future, rest assured that Ripple will not just give up. Ripple is a good and trustworthy coin, so we don't need to worry about Ripple anymore. Of course it will return to normal again
Basically, I can see Ripple as much more better than Ethereum in many ways, as the market capitalization of Ripple gathers more investors compared to Ethereum, well, even it has no smartcontract still it has better reputation in the market.