I only hold some Ethereum for long term, for gas cost I don't think it can be overcome even though Beacon chain is active, apparently gas price is still high compared to other network like BSC, Ethereum in future will still be the leading altcoin if gas price can go down as expected we hope.
From what I've seen, Ethereum is in 3rd place because of XRP. Let's see if there is another altcoin that can climb to rank 2, overtaking ETH.