In fact, I believe that competition between coins is good, since each project wants to be better than the other, so they need to develop and improve their technology. But I believe that Ethereum will not give up the second place XRP.
Completely agree with you that the Ethereum will not give so easily, because it happenned several times and Ethereum did not lose its position as final. So I think that this time will be the same. It's great to see the competitive process becausr it makes the team to do something in order to develop and move on, because only in such a way doing something you may keep your leader position.