Some don't understand that TRX is the cheapest network for USDT transfer. Heck, it was fast as hell too. Sure the TRX smart contract seems pale compared to BNB or Sol, the similar smart contract network that follows ETH. But I think the smart contract market is oversaturated and TRX just coming to the game too late. TRX doesn't have any incentive to lure in new dapp devs too.
TRX may be extremely fast and dirt cheap, but it lacks a wide number of quality dApps and tokens compared to leading smart contract platforms. Developers aren't that interested in building dApps on the TRON blockchain, simply because there are far better options out there on the market. It's all about Cardano, Ethereum, BNB, Polygon, and Avalanche these days, since that's where the money is. The day stablecoins abandon TRX completely, would be the day most people will stop using the TRON blockchain for good.
Unless the team ramps up the project's marketing/promotion efforts, I don't see TRON going anywhere soon. At least, the cryptocurrency is being actively traded across exchanges. Who knows how long will it last? Just my opinion