ETH with its slow, expensive transoms is just deliberately "ruining" its future itself, giving new players like Solana and others the opportunity to squeeze out a huge part of the audience in a short period of time.

In general, the situation is crisis for both BTC and ETH. Both of our top players are hand-assed, clumsy oldies, who should certainly be retired. But the old guys of course are not going to give up, but the fundamental problems can't be solved (and most likely won't be).