Who cares if they are profitable than ETH now? What you should look at is the long term not short term gains, many dragons are still sleeping and this present bitcoin surge has no impact on them yet, these sleeping dragons will outperform many coins that are pumping presently, ETH is no nonsense crypto coin
We need to be honest most people do not really care about anything except the profits they can get and if they cannot get profits from a coin most of the time they think the coin is a scam even if that is not the case.
And in the case they get profits they think of that project as a legitimate project even if it is a scam, and that is the case with all of those bitcoin forks which are nothing but scam coins but since they are still giving good profits people do not really care about t.