Solana quickly became a favorite among many investors, Does it became the next Ethereum 
My answer will be " Absolutely Not". Solona ha so many issue and I fear that it will go down more. They make huge success in 2021 but after reaching ATH their network suffer many problem. Now once again we saw massive down in price which show the weakness Sol network. There is no Ethereum killer so far and will more powerful after Ethereum merge. In future may be any chain make history but still market need Ethereum in high demand than any other chain.
Eth suffers many problems too on their network reason why all this follow-up and the merge talk is happening now, sol compared to eth is still young, and the network is still under development.
Sol has the potential to be as big as eth as long as the devs continue working hard and looking for lasting solutions to fix major issues. sol and eth are quite different despite having some similarities, there is no point thinking sol can be the next eth