There will be new competitors to ethereum soon, next month LISK is relaunching and they will be ready with an ethereum killing SDK using javascript rather than an unknown programming language. Get into lisk before 20 Feb!
We might as well see it first before investing on anything that we don't know. If LISK could came up with what you have describe, then it will just be matter of time because people will renewed their interest on this coin because of the said new technology they are developing.
what can you say about this higher gas price fees?
No one will be happy seeing any coin for that matter increasing their transaction fee just to be able to move funds around. If I may say that it is one of the reason one people started to shun away from bitcoin and started to move to Ethereum. But if we are going to witness it happening a network congestion and the only resolution is a higher gas price fees, then I would start looking for coins like Litecoin.