Buterin promised ETH 2.0 and I believe this update would change a lot of things. It will make ETH cheaper, transactions faster and it will cause a price boost, because mining rewards are going to be reduced by release of this update.
And staking will be activated so those who have accumulated a lot of Ethereum during the price of $80 or lower will be taking the shot. This is a worth to wait update for Ethereum.
I'm waiting for it and it looks like many are starting to get annoyed with the update because it seems to be slow.
so I think ethereum is currently in a difficult time, and if this possibility is true, there is no good future for ethereum. they will be replaced by other platforms that are much better.
Ethereum is as is altcoin and as a platform, yes there's Binance where some projects already used its platform.