I will stay away from the coin because I think there are many other coins that can provide benefits, when the last bull in 2021 bitcoin and other altcoins made ath, while xrp was not very visible.
People's choices will always differ from what will result in the returns they have invested. so I think there are people who still believe that XRP will continue to grow in the future and will continue to meet the expectations of the team even though it is running quite slowly. but I see things will move if Bitcoin continues to grow and has a staggering price.
For how many years my friend, since XRP hit $3 from its previous all time high, it has been finding it hard to reach there again and people are still shouting XRP, for what exactly? I get it that people overbought XRP in 2018 and they are yet to recover from that but I don't think ripple have anything meaniful to overcome the previous time high. The nature of blochain has change and I don't think XRP has that kind of qualities the today blockchain have, they should change their designed to either layer 1 the way Cardano dideven though I am not satisfy with their tech.