The truth is tron turned into shitcoin a long ago since 2017 approximately. Cause as you already mentioned, it didn’t performed like other top altcoins did for so many years. growth of It, seems stopped and bull failed to raise it up. don't know how it still hold its top position. I brought tron as it already has everything to be brighter altcoin but disappointed as you are. Same for dash, xlm. So i moved on from those coins but sometimes i use tron chain for transaction usdt
The performance of TRON itself wasn't that bad The problem is that its ecosystem didn't grow that much. Many of its top ecosystem projects were created or heavily manipulated by Justin sun and he made a lot of money by doing this. But such action moves other potential investors away from tron ecosystem. Currently the market is hyped out about the ETH layer 2 network and i don't think tron will get any market share from it. Dash and XLM is old tech and there is better alternative of them so i don't expect anything good from them either.