As long as Solana remains a victim of network outages, it will NEVER replace ETH in market cap. Even if developers improve the chain, it's already late to make a difference. Replacing Ethereum would be no different that replacing Bitcoin. And we all know that's impossible.
What will happen is that both Solana and Ethereum will grow in terms of mainstream adoption (usage) and market price. Bitcoin will always stay on top of Ethereum for obvious reasons. Who cares, right? As long as you're able to make money with either coin, nothing else matters.

Yeah solana is great and all but the entire economy too much revolving around meme coin that if at some point the meme trend is ended and the market runs dry of trading volume solana could also be abandoned.
not denying that there are plenty of great defi in solana too even as good as ETH but the most dominating defi in solana is the one that has something to do with meme coin.
even pumpdotfun is beating ETH in term of revenue alone, that is quite the feat because pumpdotfun is just a launchpad and ethereum is a whole blockchain even 2nd highest by market cap in term of rank but got beaten by some launchpads project, however i bet solana revenue also mostly come from pumpdotfun and any other meme related defi protocols which means too depending on meme trend. this could be a flaw.
I do agree that it's too heavily dependant on it and there is no reason to keep trusting it the way it is right now. I feel like way too many people are focusing on the wrong thing, and because of that I think it's clear that we are going to miss a big chance, shouldn't be possible and can't really make it work some other way. I know that we are going to end up with issues even further than this, and I know that it is going to take some time, but if we realize our mistakes and just focus on what we can achieve with SOL and ETH, then we will realize that picking one of them isn't a must.
We could just invest in both, and if one of them goes down, the other at least could make us money. I personally enjoy investing in both. That way I feel better about it.
In the hands of a wise person, a wise conclusion will come out, so in investing, I think we focus on having to choose one of the several coins mentioned, be it BTC, ETH and Solana, as if we have to choose the right one that is best for where we invest.
Investing in all three at once in my opinion is much better, diversifying investments in potential assets in all three is a more appropriate decision, we only need how we do risk management and portfolio management on these 3 assets, while profitable why should we bother and force to choose one, while you can invest in all three.