Until now people make bitcoin for size, and of course number one priority, so when it rises of course the value of altcoins also goes up, when XRP is ranked 3, I'm optimistic that I can beat bitcoin, unfortunately XRP's performance seems to stop so XRP's ranking continues to decline.
Your optimism is too much mate, because XRP's performance never stops, it's just that they have a few problems that they need to solve as soon as possible so it looks like it's stopped and to beat Bitcoin it's very impossible for XRP because coins that are better than XRP are still very overwhelmed to beat Bitcoin.
You are both big optimists. XRP will never catch up with Bitcoin .. let me tell you more XRP will never catch up with any real cryptocurrency, for the very obvious reason - it is not a cryptocurrency because it does not follow the basic principle of decentralization. Speculators will earn and lose on XRP, but as far as I am concerned, XRP should not appear in combinations with real cryptocurrencies at all.