Unfortunately, ETH is doing bad science 2017, because there are no updates on the network. ETH is a good coin, but if Vitalik wants to make it bigger than BTC, their team need to work on marketing and development speed.
You are wrong. Ethereum developers are working hard and there is so much happening around the network - see how DeFi has grown in past few months (
https://twitter.com/alethioethstats/status/1162426236636938240), EY (
https://www.coindesk.com/ey-open-sources-nightfall-code-for-private-transactions-on-ethereum), Microsoft (
https://www.coindesk.com/microsoft-releases-ethereum-app-development-kit-for-azure-cloud), Santander (
https://cointelegraph.com/news/santander-issues-20-million-end-to-end-blockchain-bond-on-ethereum) - more and more companies are jumping into this train.
Of course there is scalability problem - right now Ethereum network almost reached it's capacity, but dev team is working on that and transition to Ethereum 2.0 will start next year which will hopefuly solve this problem.