This kind of topics seem to have the opposite effect on the market.
Somebody seems to have dumped 100k+ LTC since you started this topic.
And today Litecoin is indeed perceived as an old coin with no perspective. If today somebody would make such a coin, with only changed algo and not much more features than Bitcoin, it would be labelled as shitcoin.
Yes, it has a background of miners, but much smaller than Bitcoin.
Unless some innovation breakthrough happens in LTC, it is slowly dying imho.
I don't know why you compare it with ETH. ETH is seen by many as a speculation-only coin. The good/lucky part with ETH that there are new coins using it, making the market have a pretty constant demand.
Let's see how long will that last... However, ETH should not have a place in the discussion about LTC, they are far too different.