Ethereum is an attempt to solve Bitcoins limited functionality, according to Ethereums co-founder Vitalik Buterin
https://ct.com/7d3uBitcoin cannot solve problems made by central systems but ETH is now able to handle transactions after this fork that made network more faster. Vitalik and other ETH devs already made all necessary changes to ETH blockchain.
As expected after the hardfork, now we are slowly realizing the effect of the hardfork.
Maybe this is the real goal since bitcoin can't do everything. ETH has a good blockchain technology, I expect a more expensive price with ETH in the future. The transactions will get more faster as ETH starts this kind of development.