Centralized and pre-mined or not Ethereum has a lot of uses in the real world but choosing it over bitcoin? No way. But if you really want to sell it you can sell it to me ^_^
If you want to bet on a platform, you have plenty of choices today!! Why ETH?!?
From stratis (business oriented), to WAVES (seems to be the new thing), or even more speculatively ARK or ADRD...
Lots of candidat s to replace the flawed ETH, which proved it could not scale, and whose initial design scheme is a bit sketchy...