Genuine question as per the title.
Firstly im not a Solona maxi. I will gladly move over to something else if it appears better (and im always looking).
Solona is just so far ahead of everything else right now and so undervalued. It looks like the only thing that could even get close to doing an Ethereum style run.
Really want to know what L1s do people go for over Solona as it makes no sense to me.
Solana is not undervalued and it is not far ahead of everything. I am not sure why you think that, but solana is broken in its built system and that is the reason we have seen this network be down for hours which shows its weakness. All these L1 are the main competitors of ETH and if they can not provide any unique usecase that ETH can not then they will eventually die like other ETH killers that existed a few years ago. What is unique about solana is its fast transactions and low gas cost. After the ETH blob upgrade its gas price will also be 100 times lower than now, and solana will slowly lose ground to ETH.