Yeah, and why ETH - should - surpass BTC in the first place? It isn't called anti-BTC or killer-of-BTC, it's ETH, with its own goals and developments in mind, it too has its shortcomings, and it's working on it (not as much as many would have wanted, but, alas 
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Yeah, imagine saying that while in the Bitcointalk forum and Ethereum is in altcoin which is just a sub-board here. ).Well, it's not like I am a Bitcoin maximalist but I do try to see things through another perspective. The ERC-20 projects gave me lots of money too and I made good profits in joining ICO's projects under ERC-20. But right now they are making progress in Bitcoin and it's still the apple of the eye of many investors before Ethereum.
So yes, it could surpass Bitcoin in a different area but I highly doubt it can in the investment area where most money is coming from. Even in the presidential candidates of the USA, most would just go for Bitcoin as their debate talk rather than Ethereum so I guess that tells which is actually the popular one and it's difficult to surpass that.