Polygon is more useful for everyone than Aave, smart contract projects have a thing that many crypto projects dont have, if it's built right the project will make a big name for itself, Aave is good but not on par with Matic.
I also thought so and if these two cryptocurrencies were compared for now, many people would definitely choose Matic because of the reason that the Polygon network is still very smooth and Matic also still has the potential to be owned by everyone.