When compared to similar projects, Ethereum is actually not as developed as its competitors such as Solana and BNB which continue to grow rapidly, especially Solana. Fortunately, Ethereum's market cap is the highest and quite difficult to achieve by other altcoins, Ethereum has more investors and trust in Ethereum as an altcoin is almost the same as Bitcoin. This means that ETH continues to survive and increase in price.
But yes, for now and in the near future, it is likely that ETH will only rise to the story of 3k again, maybe it is still a bit difficult. Because its movement is sometimes quite slow and very dependent on Bitcoin. However, for the upcoming bullrun that might happen in 2025, I hope that ETH can reach and exceed its ATH, past $5k and is it possible that it can really go to $7k? If this happens,
the more we have ETH the better, what is certain is that this coin will not rugpull, unless there is super bad news or FUD, like what happened to FTX and Luna. But it seems like there is nothing like that so far.