When now you are better off going in projects that are like early eth for example koinos which the devs work relentlessy on daily as you can see on github but its still so cheap as eth was day1 so this is a chance to make $100k from $100 while eth is not only making the rich richer
If adoption just your point to justify the ETH then there is a lot of blockchain out that has much better feature than yet ETH still on the top. What do you think is the reason for that? Adoption, feature? Of course not its there reputation as first smart contract blockchain is the only thing keeps ETH alive despite the slow speed and high transaction fee which other blockchain already solved while Ethereum is 3 years behind in terms of tech.