Waves is ahead of Ethereum on development, staking (leasing) is working great and easy to enable.
I'm pretty sure we're moving towards Eth price.
To put my money where my mouth is, I've invested a lot in both Waves and TurtleNetwork.
You'r totally right, Waves is very advanced ETH on development, Imagine ETH Gas fee hit $7 and tx stuck for hours while Waves tx fee cost few cent and trans is almost instant
Waves deserve more attention and should be on top 10 atleast.