No I don’t think Ethereum will ever catch up with Bitcoin if what you mean is be a higher $ price or surpass adoption. Bitcoin is the King of crypto & always will be, it’s better in every way. It has a much lower supply with a fixed cap of 21 million, compared to Ethereum where the supply is almost endless. Bitcoin is proof of work compared with proof of stake with Eth. Transaction/Gas are much higher with Ethereum. I don’t see Eth catching up with Bitcoin in any way.
100% correct, the most basic thing is that Ethereum (ETH) loses in terms of age, then scarcity, apart from that they also lose in terms of adoption.
Q: But Bitcoin (BTC) doesn't have what advanced blockchains like smart-contracts have?
A: With recent developments like Ordinal, isn't it already part of advanced blockchains? although the Bitcoin community doesn't like this.
As time goes by, the supply of Ethereum (ETH) will increase, because the supply is unlimited. So what other basis can Ethereum (ETH) surpass Bitcoin (BTC) someday? none at all!