Ripple will survive as it's adopted in too many corporate services and integrated into many eco-systems. So it could be cheaper to keep it alive than rewrite everything. But Ripple will never win the hearts of the crypto community.
It is not about winning hearts though but the problem is that most of the exchanges are now delisting XRP trading which is the biggest worry because any coin has its value and worth based on the trading volume and the exchanges which allow its trading and XRP would have died by now if it was not ranked so high, in case you don't know it is the 5th biggest coin in the market despite facing all the backlash and problems regarding its operating status.
I have a feeling that things won't improve because obviously there is no way of that happening but there is a good chance that the stalemate kind of market continues while the price keeps dropping lower and lower with time.