Eth is highly undervalued right now and I am expecting some huge buyouts soon. Even if there are no new projects, eth could go big from it's old projects which have great potential in terms of interoperability. POS will be a huge pump factor for sure.
For us here most of the alts are undervalued, not just ethereum. And generally I agree with that, some coins have huge potential, we just need more people and more companies to start using them. Adoption is ongoing, I think crypto is more present globally after every year.
This prediction about what can do ethereum in short term is with too wide range. Bitcoin can be between 5k dollars and 15k dollars next year! It leads nowhere, we all know that prices are volatile and that we can see red for days, same as we can see green market. I'm bullish on eth in a long run, we need to wait their upgrade and turning to staking before price make some significant rise.