Maybe the answer is clear enough from your explanation for OP and others to know. The Gas fee in ETH is also a classic story until now and is recognized as still expensive by many users. I think this is enough to prove that ETH is still no. 2. For the type of question asked by OP, I may not know how many times I have read it and it has been explained that it is still very different in terms of price or others.
The answer is clear but in this case it might not even be eth that will surpass bitcoin but for now bitcoin will for ever remain th le king even in the history, and for some time now eth has few can be crazy even without congestion, only for bitcoin I know that when the mempool is full then bitcoin gas fee is also going up during those period. Any transactions that have to involve eth I don't like getting my self involved with it even doh it's like the last option. And eth to have a very strong grounds in the market and as bitcoin is topping eth is strongly behind its complexity is what makes the whole gas fee high, their is always a reason for every single thing when it comes to crypto.