I don't think we can compare these two platforms. Pancakeswap is clearly the most used platform in BSC and have the most volume. Pancakeswap bring BSC to mass adoption, they opened a door for masses. Other clone platforms may stay in the business but won't pass Pancakeswap.
For investment wise you can make more gains in smaller platforms but risks are higher for them as well. Big money stay in platforms that are proven already.
I agree that nothing can be compared to pancakeswap, however there is the simple fact that one thing will always pass the other. I do not care what coin or exchange or project we are talking about, eventually something else will pass that, I seriously believe bitcoin will not be number one coin one day, don't know which coin/token will pass it but something will eventually pass it one day.
This may not be ape vs cake situation because ape is already doing as great as it can do and it is still nowhere near cake, however that doesn't mean that cake will always be number one in BSC neither, it will just be number one until something else passes it. Ape is also a decent one, if you missed out on pancake, you could invest into banana so that you could profit from the increase of apeswap and make a good profit, maybe it will not be as good one day and you will lose money, but it is a risk worth taking for me.