The fact is that there is a lot of incomprehensible things around Ripple. I believe that in the cryptocurrency market, you can find a more profitable asset for investment in order to reduce risk and potential losses. It is hardly worth making a positive decision about investing in Ripple, especially given the ongoing problems.
Maybe we can select the other coin besides Ripple to be our investment because the Ripple situation is still not good.
As you believe, the crypto market will be okay without Ripple can increase or not, and we already see that some altcoin can replace the Ripple but that coins can not replace Ripple position for a while.
We can leave Ripple for a while because the other coins give a good move and those coins increase and break the temporary ATH.
I have a completely different opinion from you after the past developments which gives me more confidence in XRP. Basically as many analysts also mentioned that if not affected by the SEC maybe XRP would have passed $1 soon, but the unexpected thing happened we saw it fell very fast, but I noticed it again was backed at the price that XRP had accumulated in the long run during the downtrend. And given the current situation I think many people are starting to buy again, I would not be surprised if in the near future XRP reaches $1 or maybe ATH in the further future.
You should be careful if you still want to invest in Ripple. The situation now still not good for the investors.
Maybe you can invest in Ripple, but not in big money until the situation is clear.
If it's not affected by the SEC, Ripple can be more than $1, and it could be increased for $3, but the fact now is Ripple having difficulty because of SEC.
The developer and team should solve it in the near so that the investors can feel confident to invest in the project.