Nothing has changed about XRP, the only thing that has changed is people's perception of it.
Literally, nothing has changed except that some people get REKT when investing in Ripple, with 1 cent forward and 2 cents back most of the time.
The narrative of the XRP ETF is currently building is simply to keep the dream alive.
But I've stopped hoping for the best, as it seems that expectations of the worst keep getting fulfilled. I'm moving on to other promising projects.
Yeah, Ripple has continued to maintain its business model over the years, the only thing that may change is investor expectations for an XRP price increase. I believe that's the only reason they've turned to buying and holding XRP for all these years, everyone wants to make big profits from XRP like what happened in the bullrun 2017.
The current crypto market is bustling and there are more opportunities, both BTC and ETH are more attractive than XRP in terms of security and profitability. In addition, we also have SOL, AVAX, DOT, ATOM, SUI, SEI... which are very potential new projects and worthy of being chosen for the portfolio over XRP. Anyway, the investment decision is up to each individual, I still see some potential and opportunity in XRP.