it's still low compared with actual value consider about with the increase of the circulating supply of ethereum and the demands are getting decrease a lot. Majority of the new platforms have been using ethereum as the parent platform and that's correct. They require gas but it's not so much but remembers those icos will be dumping their ether to the market again to get the money. It's quite safe.
It looks like you just understand how the platform works a little bit.