For NOW, pancakes are better on several fronts such as liquidity and also token listings. but ApeSwap is undoubtedly the new generation that has the capability to compete in the future, so it's just a matter of waiting for the right momentum and completing some homework, then ApeSwap will move fast.
now pancake is more attractive to users and maybe they managed to get the user's attention to exchange there, but it does not rule out the possibility that apeswap can compete. Plus nowadays some communities have talked a lot about apeswap. let's wait to see the development of apeswap in the future, i'm pretty sure apeswap can compete