I've always wondered why Cardano hasn't brought the attention of smart contract developers. I guess it's just a matter of poor marketing/promotion strategy from the team's end. I mean, core developers focused on developing the main chain itself without generating "buzz" all around the web. Solana and BNB took a smarter approach. It's why they're always at the top. I'm afraid Cardano will turn into a "ghost town", if developers don't do anything about it. Especially co-founder Hoskinson.
Despite the low demand for ADA, it's still one of the most reliable alternative blockchain networks in existence. It hasn't experienced a network outage or critical vulnerability yet (AFAIK). The slow and steady approach in development, seems to be the culprit. Hopefully, this coin gets noticed by the masses someday. Otherwise, it will fade away into oblivion as a failed experiment. We'll see what happens in the long run.
That's the same thing with Tron as well. We have seen Tron being very good when it comes to security, cheapness, TPS and many more and yet because of Justin Sun being a PR nightmare, even after he left Tron never took off. Which is the entire problem.
I think it's clear that we are going to see ADA being basically the same, they do not have the marketing that they should be doing and not the PR that they should be doing. Do you know how hard it is to convince thousands of projects to be on your chain? That rarely happens. ETH had it, and then SOL had it, but I think nobody else really grew there, maybe BNB a bit.