max. supply of ether is now 105,061,446.3125 , but according this article , is there going to be a max. supply 'forever' ? 
This is starting to get serious, the supply is now close to what Vitalik proposed as "maximum" months back. Hodlers will lose confidence in ETH, if the maximum supply is now decided and coded.
Adopting a maximum supply of ether coins would undoubtedly render Ethereum more attractive to investors.
Ethereum was created as fuel for smart contracts. Now this path for development is clearly abandoned. Ethereum devs don't care about smart contracts anymore. Only pressing issue is how to preserve the value of their ethereum investments. They want to promote it as store of value. The problem is as store of value bitcoin is unbeatable!
Damn! Your avatar is sick
at some point i thought there was an ant crawling inside my device, freaked out a bit Now back to the main course, it won't be very nice to allow eth to be seen only as fuel for smart contract, eth can serve more than that, btc can be unbeatable in that aspect but we can always have more than one store of value and eth will do just fine playing the supporting role.