Expensive gas fees are always a problem for investors like us, but it's not a problem for big investors. I never agree if someone says ethereum is better than bitcoin, because citcoin is still the king of crypto currencies
Always and will never be replaced, Bitcoin is growing, and After this halving occurs there will appear Rune Protocol which is a new Protocol for the Bitcoin network, this will make Bitcoin even more attractive.
Bitcoin has two main advantages, the first is its emission, it is very small and the second is its popularity, Ethereum cannot boast of a small emission, Ethereum is only popular, although many new projects are being created on its blockchain, essentially just out of habit or most likely because popularity
Ethereum's popularity is built quite well because Layer 2 is quite successful, but Bitcoin is indeed irreplaceable.
See how the price of Bitcoin went down and everything went down.
Bitcoin is very influential for the crypto ecosystem.