i agree, etherium is indeed verry slow in terms of gains but even though it was not slow , $5000-$10000 is still pretty big enough to reach in just a matter of short time and even bitcoin itself cant also achieved that expensive amount. by the way , we are now on the year 2018 and etherium in a nutshell is doing great because it starts the new year with a good jump start. until now i still see a stable and good increases in the price of etherium but not in bitcoin because bitcoin is still stuck at the 13 to 14k dollar price range.
maybe we need to break $1k first and then we can increase higher again because ethereum still needs more time to increase at that price and I think we won't see that price in this in short period. but ethereum have a chance to increase that price if people still giving the support for the coin and soon the price will go up. but I still wait for ethereum to go up and I am sure that many people which holding ethereum are waiting for this moment too.